Abstract
Jacques Lacan was one of the great mythographers of our time. Through design and accident he also managed to become one of our major contemporary myths. Like any mythic hero, he came to define the intricate braids of Parisian cultural politics, the dramatic splits and sutures of the psychoanalytic movement, both by his presence and by his absence. He fought under the banners of classical reason and uncompromising orthodoxy, yet once entered on the field he possessed an uncanny power to unleash violence and revolutionary fervor. In resuming the Myth of the Master he contrived to put radically into question the possibility of discipleship. The difficulties of Lacan-contingent, modal, tactical, and ontologic-are legendary, yet he managed to penetrate and colonize the most alien and resistant reaches of our shattered culture.
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