ABSTRACT
A young woman in analysis reported during a session a detail that had come to her attention in recent times: whenever she was reading a text in the context of her work or for pleasure, a syllable would stand out from time to time as she was reading. The syllable that kept cropping up in the name of the person she loved seemed to be indistinguishable from him, to get lost with him, but was also liable to turn up again in the world or in written language and exerted in a confused way seductive power over this subject, which is somewhat reminiscent of what Jacques Lacan called from 1960 onwards the objet. This object that Lacan calls partial and that only ever appears in a fragmented form, in this case practically detachable, is illustrated in the seminar on transference in the form of the agalma, a Platonic notion developed in The Banquet.
