The Body and the Imaginary: The Case of Francis Bacon - Pierre-Gilles Gueguen

Seminar Series: 
“The Speaking Body is Today’s Unconscious. Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century”

Pierre-Gille Guéguen’s talk discusses the art of Francis Bacon in the context of his relationship with his ‘symptom-partner’ Georges Dyer. The talk is oriented by conceptual innovations, such as the sinthome, introduced by Lacan in his teaching in the late 1970s.

Professor Pierre-Gille Guéguen (Paris 8) is a psychoanalyst who lives and works in Paris. He is a member of the École de la Cause freudienne.

Listen here: Seminar Series: The Speaking Body is Today’s Unconscious. Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century | Radio Lacan


The MA Psychoanalysis at Kingston University, and the London Graduate School in collaboration with Art and Philosophy at Central Saint Martins.