1st Edition

Lacan's Parrot A Psychoanalytic Novel

Edited By Chris Vanderwees, Betty Milan Copyright 2027
146 Pages
by Routledge

146 Pages
by Routledge

Lacan’s Parrot is a remarkable auto-fiction novel that reconstructs the relationship between the author, Betty Milan, and the renowned psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, offering unprecedented insight into the psychoanalytic process from a patient's perspective. Set against the backdrop of cultural contrasts between Paris and Brazil, the narrative explores themes of immigration, identity... Read more

Introduction by Chris Vanderwees

Part I
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5

Part II
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14

Part III. THE CIRCUMNAVIGATION
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47

Afterword by Michèle Sarde

Biography

Betty Milan was born in São Paulo, Brazil. She is the author of novels, essays and plays which have been published internationally. Before turning to writing, she earned her medical degree at the University of São Paulo and trained in psychoanalysis with Jacques Lacan in France, where she served as his assistant at the Department of Psychoanalysis, University of Paris 8.

Chris Vanderwees is a psychoanalyst, registered psychotherapist, and clinical supervisor in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of On the History and Transmission of Lacanian Psychoanalysis and On the Theory and Clinic of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, both published by Routledge.