Book, Life with Lacan, A[LS]

Winner of the 2016 André Gide Literary Prize In these pages of memories, Catherine Millot recalls with sweetness, firmness, sincerity and humor the years of coexistence and personal relationship with Lacan, from 1972 until his death in 1981 - giving the reader access to a prism peculiar to the French master of psychoanalysis. "There was a time when I had the feeling of having grasped Lacan's being in its essence. Of having a kind of intuition of his relationship with the world, a mysterious access to the intimate place from which his connection with beings and things emanated. things, and also with himself. It was as if I had slipped into him. This sensation went hand in hand with the impression of being understood, in the sense of being fully included in his understanding, the extent of which surpassed me. ... I felt myself I felt transparent to Lacan, convinced that he had absolute knowledge about me. Having nothing to hide, no mystery to preserve, gave me total freedom with him, but not only that. An essential part of my being was given to him , he had his guard, I felt relieved. I lived by his side for years in this lightness."