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Heresy  is a novel about the end of life, questioning the way this topic is treated in Western society.

It concerns the indefinite extension of life and the molecular biology project that can transform us into immortal beings. That is why the subtitle of the book is: I could be anything, but being immortal.

The author tackles difficult issues related to longevity: the medical industry, assisted suicide and euthanasia. Dying is a human right and those who accept death live better. Despite the serious reflections, Heresy is a novel that makes you laugh.

“I underwent analysis to cure myself of myself”—a shocking revelation. That is how the reader is caught in the vortex of Betty Milan’s analysis testimony with Jacques Lacan.

Betty focuses on her analysis with Lacan talking about the way he worked, that is, sustaining transference through cutting the session and not through interpreting the meaning of the analysand’s discourse. Lacan did not respect the 45-minute rule for the session, established by the International Association of Psychoanalysis. He did not do so because the chronological time did not count for him. The speech of the analysand was the most important thing. Once the essentials had been said, he considered the session to be over.

In her report, the writer and the psychoanalyst join hands to tell the analysand’s saga and take us to frequent an unprecedented temporality, which condenses experience and fantasy, childhood and adulthood”.

movie and theater

In 2019 the rights to film adaptation of the play Goodbye Doctor  and  the novel The Parrot of Lacan were bought by the american director Richard Ledes. The movie counts with David Lynch’s actor David Patrick Kelly, in the role of Lacan, and Ismenia Mendes as Seriema.

The movie Adieu Lacan was released in 2021 and distributed to the general public in May 2022, currently available on Eventive streaming platform.

In 2024 the play has been performed in New York by Psykout at the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre A.R.T. Debora Balardini was the director. Jerry Topitzer played the role of Lacan and Barbara Riethe played Seriema.