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Even after thirty years, the mystery of Jacques Lacan remains unsolved. Despite hundreds of works dedicated to him and several decades of research on his legacy, we are doomed to continue asking ourselves questions about this man and his thought. What was Lacan really talking about? About psychoanalysis, obviously. Was he talking about philosophy? Yes, in a certain sense. About contemporary literature, about the adventure of language? Of course he was. About subjective drama? Yes, about it too. And what else? Doesn't he still conceal some incomprehensible residue in himself? Lacan was, is and will remain an enigma, an author who cannot be fully catalogued and deciphered. His inherent multiplicity never ceases to baffle us, yesterday as well as today. Jacques Lacan: The Modernity of the Past, first published by Seuil in 2012, contains two extensive dialogues between the famous French intellectual and historian of psychoanalysis Elisabeth Rudinesco and the famous philosopher Alain Badiou about Jacques Lacan, the psychoanalyst, thinker, teacher, and man they knew well during his lifetime.