Summary
Elisabeth Roudinesco: Jacques Lacan
An Account of a Life and a History of a System of Thought
The book "Jacques Lacan. An Account of a Life and a History of a System of Thought" historicizes - to begin with - Lacan's public life (family origin, dynamics of family relationships, social status, building or dismantling of self-image, marriages and friendships). It also historicizes Lacan's private, inner and spiritual life (spiritual conquest and sharpening of Freud's teaching through structural, logical and mathematical processing, exceptional education in various fields (philosophy, medicine, psychiatry, mathematics, linguistics) and languages (Latin, German, English, Chinese), influence and receiving influence. Such a detailed biography of Jacques Lacan (of nine parts, thirty-two chapters and almost a thousand notes) was written by Elisabeth Roudinesco from the perspective historian and psychoanalyst. She also approached the topics as a contemporary of Lacan, who was very close to some members of his family. This carefully written biography of Lacan also contains a comprehensive bibliography of Lacan's works, tables and genealogy. It also contains a detailed index of names and terms and ideas by the author. sound and photographic archives, from the collection of direct testimonies of more than ninety interlocutors, from reading (different versions) of Lacan's works and works about Lacan and - finally - careful comparisons and repeated checks of the data she collected in the research.
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