Transcribing Lacan's Seminars - Memoirs of a Disgruntled Keybasher Turned Psychoanalyst

The author began her working career as a freelance conference steno-typist, and it was in this capacity that she was Jacques Lacan's steno-typist ("keybasher") from 1967 to 1979. It was only after she became a psychoanalyst herself that Pierrakos felt adequately equipped to explore and write about this experience in depth. Her careful but excoriating criticism of the Lacanian system will be of interest to all readers wishing to understand more about one of the most curious phenomena of our time - how a large part of the French intelligentsia came to be captivated by what turned out to be both a body of theory, an idealogy and a way of treating patients, whose effects, though questionable from many aspects, are still felt today in many fields.