A Father: Puzzle

by Sibylle Nathan Lacan

Book Overview

The daughter of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan tries to make sense of her relationship with her father.

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262039311
• ISBN13: 9780262039314
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.1"