Gérard Haddad is a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and essayist, born in Tunisia. His areas of work include the psychoanalysis of politics, religion, war, and family. He is the author of “The Day Lacan Adopted Me” (Le jour où Lacan m’a adopté, 2002, Grasset), in which he described his experience of psychoanalysis with Jacques Lacan, which he entered in 1968, and which influenced his transition from atheism and Marxism.
In the Right Hand of God: Psychoanalysis of Fanaticism; The Cain Complex: Terrorism, Hatred of the Other, and Brotherly Rivalry; At the Source of Violence: From Oedipus to Cain – Freud’s Mistake?; Illegitimate Child: Talmudic Sources of Psychoanalysis; Original Sin of Psychoanalysis; The Light of the Vanishing Star; Biblioclasts: Messiah and Auto-da-fé; Muslims Against Islam?; Tripalium: Why Has Labor Become Suffering?; Women and Alcohol.
