자료유형 | 단행본 |
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서명/저자사항 | A father : puzzle/ Sibylle Lacan ; translated by Adrian Nathan West. [electronic resource]. |
개인저자 | Lacan, Sibylle,author. West, Adrian Nathan,translator, |
발행사항 | Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2019. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (104 pages). |
기타형태 저록 | Print version: Lacan, Sibylle, author. Père. English. Father 9780262039314 |
ISBN | 9780262351126 0262351129 |
요약 | 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 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. In one sense, then, A Father presents the voice of one who, while bearing his name, had been erased. If Jacques Lacan had described the word as a "presence made of absence," Sibylle Lacan here turns to the language of the memoir as a means of piecing together the presence of a man who had entered her life in absence, and in his passing, finished in it . In its interplay of absence, naming, and the despair engendered by both, A Father ultimately poses an essential question: what is a father This first-person account offers both a riposte and a complement to the concept (and the name) of the father as Lacan had defined him in his work, and raises difficult issues about the influence biography can have on theory--and vice versa--and the sometimes yawning divide that can open up between theory and the lives we lead. |
통일서명 | Père.English |
주제명(개인명) | Lacan, Jacques,1901-1981. Lacan, Sibylle. Lacan, Jacques,1901-1981. -- fast -- Lacan, Sibylle.fast -- |
일반주제명 | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Scientists & Psychologists PSYCHOLOGY / Reference |
언어 | 영어 |
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