Chantal Talagrand is a psychoanalyst practicing in Paris. At the Institut des hautes études en psychanalyse she conducts a seminar on the relation between psychoanalysis, criminology, and law. She was editor-in-chief of the magazines Cahiers Confrontation and Contretemps, and has published many articles in France and abroad, including Confrontation, Études freudiennes, Psychanalyse à l’Université, Traverses, Intersignes, Textuel, and Filigrane. In addition, she has contributed toJenseits des Identichen ('Beyond Identity'), Depuis Lan ('Since Lacan'), and États généraux de la psychanalyse ('The General State of Psychoanalysis').
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This book sheds a new light on Freud, who from the beginning was aware that the psychoanalytic edifice he was constructing – which revealed in each individual an “ego not master in its own house” –... (more)