Alcibiades, in front of Socrates, made an attempt to seduce him, wanted to transform him, and in the most explicit way, into a tool, submissive to what? - to the object of his desire, his own, Alcibiades', which is a statue, the good object.

And I could add: how could we, analysts, not recognize what it is about? It has been clearly stated - Socrates has the good object in his belly. Socrates is no longer here but the envelope of what constitutes the object of desire.

To clearly emphasize that he is nothing more than this envelope, Alcibiades wanted to show that Socrates is, in relation to himself, the slave of desire, that Socrates is submissive to him through desire. He wanted to see Socrates' desire, which he knew, manifest itself with its sign, to know that the other, the object, the statue, was at his mercy.

However, it is precisely the fact that he failed in this attempt that fills Alcibiades with shame and gives so much weight to his confession. [...] In front of everyone's eyes, the most scandalous secret is revealed with its particular characteristic, the ultimate motive of desire, which we are always forced to conceal, more or less, in love - its goal is the fall of the Other, A, into another, a.

(Excerpt from Chapter XII)