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The Name of the Father. In the Shadow of Jacques Lacan

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The Name of the Father. In the Shadow of Jacques Lacan
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This collection brings together two books by Sybille Lacan—"The Father" and "Ellipsis"—in which she, the youngest daughter of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan from his first marriage, attempts to piece together from the fragments of her memory the image of a father who never became a support for her. She calls her own birth "the fruit of despair," and her life is shrouded in a mysterious illness that no French psychoanalyst has been able to fully cure.

While Jacques Lacan was formulating the theory of the "Name-of-the-Father," his daughter searched for this name within herself—through writing, through silence, through pain. Her prose is neither confession nor accusation, but an attempt to find her own voice and emerge from the shadow of her great father.

"Ellipsis" is a continuation of this confessional work: here Sybille speaks not only of her father, but also of herself, her mother, and the world that never became her home.

This is one of the most poignant books about what it's like to be the child of a genius—and how to remain yourself when someone else's name defines your life.
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