Life with Lacan, by Catherine Millot

A lyrical memoir of a writer and psychoanalyst’s romantic and intellectual relationship with Lacan shows that psychoanalysis is very much the art of the enigmatic vignette, says Benjamin Poore

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April 26, 2018

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April 26, 2018

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Anecdotal: in her ‘love letter’ to Lacan, Catherine Millot reveals the analyst’s fondness for the hippos in Vincennes zoo

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