Didier-Weill, Alain

Alain Didier-Weill (1939-2018) practiced psychoanalysis in Paris after psychiatric training, participated directly in Lacan's seminars in the 1970s, and after the dissolution of the École freudienne de Paris co-founded the associations Mouvements du coût freudien and the Mouvement Insistance. He was a prolific author on psychoanalysis and on its intersection with fine arts, as well as a prolific dramatist; his analytic writings include Les trois temps de la loisLila et la lumière de Vermeer; Invocations: Dionysos, Saint-Paul et Freud; and Nota Azul: Freud, Lacan e a arte. He was also a faculty member of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association, which has published the only book-length translation of his work into English, his 1995 study The Three Times of the Law (Agincourt Press/Sea Horse). Director Richard Ledes has filmed two of his literary works as The Caller and Vienna 1913. 

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