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Tag: Elisabeth Roudinesco

  • Lacan against the 21st Century.

    —

    by

    The Rev. Joshua Paetkau
    in

    Works Reviewed: Alain Badiou and Elisabeth Roudinesco Jacques Lacan Past and Present: A Dialogue. Translated by Jason E. Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. 82 pages. One does not necessarily expect a book about Jacques Lacan to be compulsively readable. Lacan was an enigmatic thinker; his use of language is alluring, though extremely difficult to follow.…