ISBN-13: 9781509523603, 978-1509523603. Transference The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VIII. Author(s): Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller, Bruce Fink. Jacques Lacan. It is in order to clearly emphasize that he is nothing but this envelope that Alcibiades tries to show that Socrates is desire’s serf in his relations with Alcibiades, that Socrates is enslaved to Alcibiades by his desire.