ABSTRACT
Presentation on Transference is the first of the readings that Jacques Lacan will give of Freud's case histories between 1951 and 1957. He examines the case of Dora, the young Viennese woman of 18, who was divided between her perception of herself—which was on the male side—and her place as a woman, which she owed to the automatism of the symbolic function that determined the group to which she belonged. In discussing this case, Lacan immediately stresses the epistemological axis that orients his return to Freud. He does so in order to account for the way in which the subject is divided between the imaginary register, which founds her first identifications—those of the mirror stage—and the symbolic. The authors consider the return to Freud as a moment of mutation or of metaphor, one that, in terms of Lacan's clinic, made Claude Levi-Strauss' version of the rules of the symbolic function prevail over Durkheim's version of family life.
