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4, Winter 1996
ABSTRACT. A distinguished historian of ideas long associated with detailed narratives and
analyses of the lives and ideas of the foundingfigures of psychoanalysisinterviews Marc-Fran-
cois Lacan, younger brother of Jacques Lacan and a Benedictinemonk. Much is revealed in this
essay, originally published in French, of the thinking of both men, most startlingly perhaps of
the extent to which there are religious elements in the background and even the thought of
Jacques Lacan, that commandingpersonalityin French psychoanalyticcircles.
Paul Roazen, Ph.D., is Professorof Social and Political ScienceEmeritus at York Universityin
Toronto and Fellowof the RoyalSocietyof Canada.