Jacques lacan, past and present a dialogue

• Main Authors: Badiou, Alain, Roudinesco, Elisabeth, Smith, Jason E
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York Columbia University Press 2014
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Influence; Lacan, Jacques - Influence; Lacan, Jacques, 1901–1981; PHILOSOPHY; Psychoanalysis; Psychology

In this dialogue, Alain Badiou shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He explains in depth the tools Lacan gave him to navigate the extremes of his other two philosophical "masters," Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser....