Appointment with Lacan, An

Alternative title: Rendez-Vous Chez Lacan
Synopsis: This film about the psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Lacan takes a look at his day-to-day life, through accounts from his patients, pupils, and close friends and family. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a bourgeois Catholic family, Lacan had an encyclopaedic knowledge and trained as a psychiatrist. He was friendly with Picasso, Lévi-Strauss and Sartre. But despite being a brilliant psychoanalyst, and an outstanding practitioner and theorist, his own colleagues excommunicated him, treating him as though he were the devil.

Filmmaker Gérard Miller was still in lycée when he first met Lacan. At the age of twenty, his elder brother Jacques-Alain Miller became one of Lacan’s most loyal pupils. A few years later, Jacques-Alain married Lacan’s daughter Judith. 45 years on, Gérard Miller still feels the same way about Lacan: "Lacan was an absolutely incredible man. I have made this film so as many people as possible can know about him!"

DVD extras: Interview with Judith Miller (17 min); interview with Jacques-Alain Miller (15 min); director’s perspective (14 min)
Series: Regards, Series
Language: French (Standard) (French with English subtitles)
Country: France
Year of release: 2012
Year of production: 2011
Subjects: Media studies; Psychiatry; Social sciences
Keywords: psychoanalysis; Lacan, Jacques Marie Émile (1901-1981)

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