Jacques Lacan: the modernity of the past. Dialogue

Even after thirty years, the mystery of Jacques Lacan remains unsolved. Despite hundreds of works dedicated to him and several decades of research into his legacy, we are doomed to continue asking ourselves questions about this man and his thoughts. What was Lacan talking about? About psychoanalysis? Obviously. About philosophy? Yes, in a way. About modern literature, about the adventure of language? Definitely. About subjective drama? And about her too. And about what else? Doesn't he still hide some incomprehensible residue in himself?

Lacan was and will remain an enigma, an author who cannot be fully cataloged and deciphered. The diversity inherent in it does not stop inexorably confusing us yesterday as, in fact, today.

Jacques Lacan: The Modernity of the Past, first published by the French publisher Seuil in 2012, contains two lengthy dialogues by renowned French intellectual and historian of psychoanalysis Élisabeth Roudinesco and renowned philosopher Alain Badiou about Jacques Lacan—a psychoanalyst, thinker, teacher, and human being—whom they well knew during life.