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In this dialogue, [[Alain ]] [[Badiou ]] shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to [[Lacanian ]] [[psychoanalysis]]. He explains in depth the tools [[Lacan ]] gave him to navigate the extremes of his [[other ]] two [[philosophical ]] “masters,” Jean-[[Paul ]] [[Sartre ]] and Louis [[Althusser]]. Élisabeth Roudinesco supplements Badiou’s [[experience ]] with her own perspective on the troubled landscape of the [[French ]] [[analytic ]] [[world ]] since Lacan’s death—critiquing, for example, the link (or [[lack ]] thereof) between [[politics ]] and psychoanalysis in Lacan’s [[work]]. Their [[exchange ]] reinvigorates how the the work of a pivotal twentieth-century thinker is perceived.