François Regnault

François Regnault (; born 1938) is a French philosopher, playwright and dramaturg. Also a university instructor and teacher, Regnault was maître de conférences at Paris VIII before his retirement. Among his various writings he is the author, with Jean-Claude Milner, of the seminal Dire le vers and of Conférences d'esthétique lacanienne.

Studies

Regnault studied philosophy at the Lycée Louis-Le-Grand, and then the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) beginning in 1962 where he attended the seminars of Louis Althusser.

Psychoanalysis

At ENS, he attended the seminars of Jacques Lacan and was a member of the editorial board of Cahiers pour l'Analyse beginning with its inception in 1966. that whether he is writing on psychoanalysis or working in theatrical aesthetics, it is a double field which shares the subject: Lacan's teaching and the love of theater. 'Presentation' (c. 2008), on line at

In English translation ‘Lacan and Experience’. In Lacan and the Human Sciences, ed. Alexandre Leupin. Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska, 1991. ‘The Name-of-the-Father’. In Reading Seminar XI: Lacan’s Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, ed. Richard Feldstein, Maire Jaanus, & Bruce Fink. Albany: SUNY, 1995. ‘Art after Lacan’, trans. B.P. Fulks & J. Jauregui. lacanian ink 19 (2002). ‘Ethics and the Theatre’, trans. B.P. Fulks & J. Jauregui. lacanian ink 21 (2003). ‘Saintliness and Sainthood’, trans. P. Bradley. lacanian ink 33 (2009). 'I Was Struck by What You Said...', trans. A. Price. Hurly-Burly 6 (2011).