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Analyzed by Lacan: A Personal Account

Analyzed by Lacan: A Personal Account

Milan, Betty
Vanderwees, Chris
Landers, Clifford E.

Paperback

Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons

Literary CriticismGeneral Psychology

ISBN13: 9798765106198
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Nov 2 2023
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

Analyzed by Lacan brings together the first English translations of Why Lacan, Betty Milan's memoir of her analysis with Lacan in the 1970s, and her play, Goodbye Doctor, inspired by her experience.

Why Lacan provides a unique and valuable perspective on how Lacan worked as psychoanalyst as well as his approach to psychoanalytic theory. Milan's testimony shows that Lacan's method of working was based on the idea that the traditional way of interpreting provoked resistance.

Prior to Why Lacan, Milan wrote a play, Goodbye Doctor, based on her experience as Lacan's patient. The play is structured around the sessions of Seriema with the Doctor. Through the analysis, Seriema discovers why she cannot give birth, namely, an unconscious desire to satisfy the will of her father who didn't authorize her to conceive. She ceases to be the victim of her unconscious, grasps the possibility of choosing a father for her child and thus becoming a mother. Goodbye Doctor has been adapted into a film, Adieu Lacan, by the director Richard Ledes.

Analyzed by Lacan features an Introduction by Milan to both works as well as a new interview with Mari Ruti about her writing and Lacan.

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