How Lacan [excerpt]

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Annelise Heimburger: What is your memory of your first meeting that evening at rue de Lille?

Benoît Jacquot: I turned up at eight in his waiting room. I'd say there were at least fifty patients, in very different states, and managing all this, his faithful secretary, Gloria. Maybe I'm exaggerating now, but I wondered what the hell I was doing there, it was really amazing. I later understood that there was an entire protocol and that there were no certainties as to the order of things: first come wasn't necessarily first served, and this stirred something very particular in each of us. I believe it was very effective clinically.

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The office was really tiny, with the couch, an André Masson painting, and Lacan's desk at the head of the couch. We remained there for less than an hour. I sat in the sofa, he sat at his desk, and while he made me detail the reasons for my proposal, he scribbled his knots. I think I amused him very much because I started to describe Psy Show to him. He was astonished that Serge Leclaire was in it. Little by little, while he made his usual rumblings as if to punctuate what I was telling him. I understood that he had decided to do it, we would see how with Jacques-Alain Miller.

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