Laurence Bataille (1930–1986) was a French doctor, psychoanalyst and writer. She was the only daughter of the writer

Georges Bataille Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille (; ; 10 September 1897 – 9 July 1962) was a French philosopher and intellectual working in philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, and history of art. His writing, which included essays, novels, ...

and the actress

Sylvia Bataille Sylvia Bataille (born Sylvia Maklès; 1 November 1908 – 22 December 1993) was a French actress of Romanian-Jewish descent. When she was twenty, she married the writer Georges Bataille with whom she had a daughter, the psychoanalyst Laurence Bata ...

. After ten years of marriage, in 1971 she divorced André Basch, by whom she had a daughter. Stepdaughter of

Jacques Lacan Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (, , ; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud", Lacan gave yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, and pu ...

, from 1976 to 1978 she directed the review of the Freudian School of Paris ''Ornicar''.Chantal Talagrand
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in Béatrice Didier, Antoinette Fouque & Mireille Calle-Gruber, '' Le Dictionnaire universel des créatrices'', Éditions des femmes, Paris, 2013.

Works

* ''L'ombilic du rêve: d'une pratique de la psychanalyse'', 1987

References

1930 births 1986 deaths French people of Romanian-Jewish descent French psychoanalysts {{France-writer-stub