“Hand Grenade Film”: Psychoanalyst Interviews American Film Director About His Movie Adieu Lacan.

Ismenia Mendes as Seriema in ADIEU LACAN.

Abstract Chris Vanderwees provides a brief review of Richard C. Ledes’s film, Adieu Lacan, the story of a young woman’s struggle to understand and come to terms with her origins through psychoanalysis. Following this review, Vanderwees interviews Ledes about the making of the film, the depiction of Lacan’s clinical practice, and some of the decisions regarding representation…

David Patrick Kelly as Jacques Lacan in ADIEU LACAN