Timothy Lachin

A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, I received my training and education in psychoanalysis in the university department created under the personal auspices of Jacques Lacan in Paris. Currently directed by Lacan's son-in-law Jacques-Alain Miller, the department of psychoanalysis at the Université Paris 8, founded as an experimental school in 1968, remains the citadel of the authentic Lacanian orientation; Slavoj Zizek is a well-known graduate. I received my masters in psychoanalysis in 2009 under the direction of the noted Lacan scholar Gérard Wajcman. After completing five years of doctoral studies in the same department, I transferred to the department of philosophy, where I took my PhD in 2019 under the psychoanalyst and philosopher Bertrand Ogilvie. As the department of psychoanalysis was shaped by Lacan, the historically significant department of philosophy was shaped by its remarkable faculty, including Michel Foucault, Jean Lyotard, Alain Badiou, and above all Gilles Deleuze. The cornerstone of an analyst's training is his own analysis, and concurrently with my theoretical education, I was analyzed by a student of Lacan's. I participated for many years in the section clinique at the Hôpital Paul Giraud in Villejuif, France, and worked with psychotic patients at the Hôpital Sainte-Anne in Paris. I have written and done translations for various publications affiliated with Miller's Ecole de la Cause Freudienne, including the Lacanian Review Online, Les Feuillets du Courtil, and Hurly-Burly. Although a committed Lacanian, I have not limited my study to the specifically Millerian interpretation of Lacan's teaching, and I have extensive knowledge of all the major schools of psychoanalytic as well as philosophical thought. After sixteen years in Paris, I have recently relocated to Berlin.