Jacques Lacan’s thought is essential to understanding our modernity. And what about women’s voices? Immerse yourself in the heart of the Lacan exhibition at the Center Pompidou-Metz for an invigorating session.
He is The origin of the world. Gustave Courbet’s oil painting, which the curators of the “Lacan, exhibition” at the Pompidou-Metz Center could not pass by, grabs the visitor by the collar at the end of the tour. Fix his gaze. Do you remember ? The origin of the world, that is, a small rectangle measuring 46 x 55 cm (made in 1866), the whole body of a woman, and under the shirt (or white sheet) the breast, stomach, navel, two thighs, which of course reveal this. the woman’s penis, her black hair, her famous opening; The painting, which had been hidden until Hungary during World War II after many trips, was bought at auction in 1955 by Jacques Lacan and his partner Sylvia Bataille.
The psychiatrist and psychoanalyst kept this picture for thirty years for personal use, displaying it in a corner of Evelyn’s country house. A visitor had to be taken to admire it when the wooden panel was pushed back…
Source: Le Figaro
