A Father: Puzzle (The MIT Press) by Sibylle Lacan
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Overview: The daughter of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan tries to make sense of her relationship with her father.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
“When I was born, my father was already no longer there.” Sibylle Lacan’s memoir of her father, the influential French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, is told through fragmentary, elliptical episodes, and describes a figure who had defined himself to her as much by his absence as by his presence. Sibylle was the second daughter and unhappy last child of Lacan’s first marriage: the fruit of despair (“some will say of desire, but I do not believe them”). Lacan abandoned his old family for a new one: a new partner, Sylvia Bataille (the wife of Georges Bataille), and another daughter, born a few months after Sibylle. For years, this daughter, Judith, was the only publicly recognized child of Lacan―even if, due to French law, she lacked his name.
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