Love in Plato 2. Plato’s Symposium , or Love as Transference If Lacan’s reading of the poetry of courtly love ends with this pornographic and scatological point, his reading of Plato’s Symposium  begins with an equally surprising point: the point of comedy. There are very few academic commentaries that emphasize anything of the comedy in the Symposium , but Lacan begins by saying precisely that he will not be giving an academic commentary. It is an important warning. Before carrying out his...