ABSTRACT
Some of my regular readers from the Psychiatric Times found this piece to be "out of character" for me. I have often played the down-home, country psychiatrist in my column there, and here I was spouting trendy Parisian theories in a somewhat different tone. In fact, this patient brought me directly to the tension within myself between the Ivy-educated intellectual and the provincial rustic. It took the appearance of a better integrated figure in his dream to lead both of us out of this hamstrung position.
"Lacan" appeared in the May 1998 Times.
