==Introduction==
This [[seminar]] is explicitly addressed to analysts, as it concerns questions of psychoanalytic technique, those of [[resistance]], [[defence]], [[repression]] and [[transference]].
It also contains his early formulation of the imaginary and his critique of the Object Relations School of psychoanalysis.
[[Lacan]] cuts in the study of [[Freud]] by dint of his theory on the [[imaginary]], the [[symbolic]] and the [[real]].
The focal point of the discussion is the direction of the [[cure]].
Through the case histories of Freud, Klein, Kris and Balint, the debate elucidates on the convergence of [[psychoanalysis]], [[philosophy]], [[theology]], [[linguistics]] and [[game theory]].
In keeping with this heterogeneous approach, Lacan will further appeal to the [[science]] of [[optics]] to systematize his analyses of the specular relation.
