Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan. Writer: Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons. Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) was an influential and controversial French psychoanalyst, from a Catholic family, who were vinegar merchants. Witnessing the hideous suffering of World War I veterans prompted him to become a doctor. Lacan's wife Sylvia Bataille was an acclaimed French actress (Renoir's Crime of Monsieur Lange and his A Day in the Country) whose first husband was the troubled surrealist novelist Georges...