"An extraordinary book about the most flamboyant French neo-Freudian of the twentieth century." -The Times
Élisabeth Roudinesco is Head of Research in History at Université Paris Diderot–Paris 7, and teaches at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. She is the author of many books, including Jacques Lacan & Co.: A History of Psychoanalysis in France, 1925-1985 and Madness and Revolution: The Lives and Legends of Théroigne de Mericourt.
Praise for Jacques Lacan: An Outline of a Life and History of a
System of Thought:
"[An] extraordinary book about the most flamboyant French
neo-Freudian of the twentieth century."—The Times
"Elisabeth Roudinesco takes us on a fascinating journey …
fascinating like Lacan himself."—Michael Kajman, Le Monde
"She acknowledges Lacan's personal absurdity and literary
extravagance while simultaneously showing why and how he matters.
Ms. Roudinesco captures the freshness of the intellectual world in
which Lacan's developing notions were concocted."—New York
Times
Praise for Our Dark Side
"Required reading for all studies of the history of
consciousness."—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University
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