Katrin Miot sketches in this book "her own Lacan," as she herself says. A companion of Jacques Lacan in the last years of his life, a psychoanalyst and writer, Miot writes with a tender, playful, and simultaneously admiring gaze.

She reveals a simple and generous person in his relationships with others, free in his behavior and way of being, persistent, impetuous, and fearless.

At the same time, she illuminates some central themes of his teachings and enriches the text with characters and situations from the broader environment of the great thinker.