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<small>[[Lacan ]] challenges [[Miller ]] for assuming that Lacan has the answer to every question. Such a positioning of Lacan as a make-believe [[master ]] is central to the [[analytic ]] [[discourse ]] in which the [[analysand ]] attributes to the [[analyst]], via the [[transference]], the function of lost [[object]]. This [[lost object ]] is, as Miller writes, prefigured by [[Freud]]'s series of [[oral ]] and [[anal ]] 'losses' in the '[[Three ]] Essays of [[Sexuality]]', and which 'Karl [[Abraham ]] made the crux of his [[theory ]] of [[development ]] from which he derived the first premises of the '[[partial ]] object'; Melanie [[Klein]], his student, located the [[partial object ]] at the center of [[psychic ]] [[economy]], going so far as to show that at the end of [[analysis]], in seperating from the analyst, an analysand has to mourn the [[loss ]] of this object. And whence it was that [[Winnicott ]] glimpsed the [[transitional object]]. This is what Lacan sums up, condenses, justifies and constructs with [[object a]].'<BR>[[Jacques-Alain Miller]], 'Microscopia: An Introduction to the [[Reading ]] of [[Television]]'. Trans. [[Bruce Fink]] (1990).</small><BR><BR><small>Subtitles adapted from the [[translation ]] by Denis Hollier, Rosalind Krauss, and Annette Michelson in '[[Television: A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment]]' - [[Jacques Lacan ]] (Norton, [[London]]: 1990). [[Complete ]] video (without subtitles) [[Jacques Lacan - Télévision (Video)|available here]].</small>