He is a French Lacanian psychoanalyst, founder of the World Association of Psychoanalysis. He began his training with Jean-Paul Sartre, whom he met at the age of 16. He then entered the École Normale Supérieure in Paris where, in 1964, he met Jacques Lacan. He attended Roland Barthes' seminars at the École pratique des hautes études. He was a disciple of Louis Althusser, along with Jacques Rancière and Ettiene Balibar. Driven by Althusser to study Lacan's complete works, he later formed a close relationship with the psychoanalyst and married his daughter Judith.
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