Psychobiography
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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.642
Guiding Remarks for a Convention on Female Sexuality > *On a book by Jean Delay and another by Jean Schlumberger<sup>1</sup>*
Theoretical move: Lacan uses Delay's psychobiography of Gide to theorize the relationship between the literary message and the writer's private life, arguing that truth is constituted through fictional structure and that the signifier (the "letter") organizes the soul's history — positioning the psychobiographer as the new addressee of the subject's discourse in place of God.
In so doing, Delay claims to isolate a genre: psychobiography. Regardless of the law to which he wishes to submit it, the fact that he simultaneously provides its chef-d'oeuvre cannot be without importance in grasping its limit.