THE BIOGRAPHIES

Slavoj Zizek, otherwise known simply as "Zizek", is (in the wake of the intellectual death of Jacques Derrida) the indisputably "hot" critic of the West. Terry Eagleton has described him as, "The most formidably brilliant exponent of psychoanalysis to have emerged in Europe for some decades."

Jacques Debrot was psychoanalysed by Lacan briefly for four months in 1981. The enigma poetry presents, he came to realize at that time, is the enigma of the *analytical* itself, a superfluity that rises to subtraction in the water
of dream.

Kent Johnson teaches Spanish at Highland Community College in Freeport, Illinois. He is honored to have been able to curate the transcripts of this analytical exchange, and he thanks Mr. Debrot for sharing such private matter in a public setting. As well, he thanks Slavoj Zizek for generously writing the brief preface to the Lacan/Debrot transcripts.

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Biographies