• Director(s):

    MILLER (GERARD)

  • Producer(s):

    PMP (penelope - morgane productions), 2 CAFES L'ADDITION

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2011

  • Language(s):

    English, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

Today, Lacan is considered the most modern, most stimulating, and even the most controversial of psychoanalysts. Watching the documentary, viewers will see for themselves that he entirely deserves his reputation.

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!"