Koyré in Dr. Jacques Lacan's laboratory

Abstract:

In the present article, we seek to reconstruct the dialogue between Lacan and Koyré, which took place in the 1954-1955 seminar, over Plato's Meno. Unfortunately, there is no recording of the class, we are only left with some discussions that were taken up during the open seminars. Nonetheless, in his book Discovering Plato, Koyré devoted one of the chapters precisely to this text. As we have discussed in this work, his interpretation of the platonic text explains why Lacan approached the theme of resistance in analysis, comparing the analysts of his generation to the character Meno.

Keywords:
Lacan; Koyré; Platão; Meno; resistance