Book, Lacan still: testimony of an analysis[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. “The analysis with Lacan did not definitively cure me of anguish, but it changed my life. It allowed me to accept my origins, my biological sex and become a mother. This, on the one hand, happened thanks to his real interest in change. On the other, thanks to the way he worked and which, even today, causes outrage.” In this book, writer and psychoanalyst Betty Milan focuses on Jacques Lacan's revolutionary way of working — which subverted psychoanalysis, returning it to the virulence of its beginnings — and offers an intimate and rare testimony of the analysis he carried out with the Doctor, between the years 1973 and 1978. In her report, she tells us her saga as an analysand, from the beginning to the end of the process: the departure for France, the first meeting at number 5 Rue de Lille, until the approval to return to Brazil and start over life. In Lacan's singular analytical journey, the reader is taken to visit an unprecedented temporality that condenses experience and fantasy, childhood and adulthood — from the megalopolis of São Paulo and the “air of Paris” to the Lebanese village and the Rio carnival. Fully exercising his famous diktat that psychoanalysis must be reinvented by each analyst, we are surprised by Lacan's extreme tact when conducting his sessions with minimalist interventions, which fill silences and support questions.