Sylvia Bataille Lacan (Macklés)

Sylvia Bataille Lacan (1 November 1908 – 23 December 1993) was a French actress, born Sylvia Maklès in Paris (where she also died), of Romanian-Jewish descent.

When she was twenty, she married the writer Georges Bataille with whom she had a daughter, the psychoanalyst Laurence Bataille (1930–1986). Georges Bataille and Sylvia separated in 1934 but did not divorce until 1946. Starting in 1938, she was a companion of the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan with whom, in 1941, she had a daughter, Judith, today Judith Miller. Sylvia Bataille married Jacques Lacan in 1953.

A Jewish woman of Romanian origin, Sylvia Makles would have her career shattered by the war. She had long frequented the vanguard of the French intelligentsia, among whom she counted her closest friends.

. . . As of 1940, Sylvia, who was pregnant with Judth, was living in the unoccupied zone. After a stay in Auvergne, she moved to Cagnes-sur-Mer, where Lacan joined her very two weeks. the Makles family has harassed endlessly, by the French authorities, who were soon to force Sylvia's mother to declare her Jewish identity. Learning of this, Lacan rushed to the police headquarters of Cagnes, accompanied by his mistress, and demanded the family papers, which were carefully arranged in a file on a shelf. Losing patience, Lacan climbed on a stool, took the documents with him and ripped them up as soon as he was outside the door. Naturally, he had "promised" the police superintendent to bring them back in due time. Without participating in the Resistance, he undertook, in Vichy, to obtain official papers for Jewish friends seeking refuge in the unoccupied zone or in Paris. Source

Filmography

1. 1930 : Le Roman de Renard animated feature film by Ladislas Starevitch, voice of Rabbit
2. 1930 : La Joie d'une heure short film by André Cerf
3. 1933 : La Voix sans visage by Léo Mittler
4. 1934 : Por un perro chico, una mujer (Un chien qui raccroche) short film by Santiago de la Concha - Santiago Ontañón
5. 1934 : Adémaï aviateur by Jean Tarride
6. 1935 : Son excellence Antonin by Charles-Félix Tavano
7. 1936 : Topaze by Marcel Pagnol
8. 1936 : Rose by Raymond Rouleau
9. 1936 : Partie de campagne by Jean Renoir
10. 1936 : Œil de lynx, détective by Pierre-Jean Ducis
11. 1936 : Le Crime de Monsieur Lange by Jean Renoir
12. 1936 : Jenny by Marcel Carné
13. 1937 : Le Chemin de Rio (released as Woman Racket in English) by Richard Siodmak
14. 1937 : Vous n'avez rien à déclarer? by Léo Joannon
15. 1937 : Le Gagnant (short film) by Yves Allégret
16. 1937 : L'Affaire du courrier de Lyon by Maurice Lehmann and Claude Autant-Lara
17. 1937 : Forfaiture (released as The Cheat in English) by Marcel L'Herbier
18. 1938 : Frères corses by Géo Kelber
19. 1938 : Les Gens du voyage (released as People Who Travel in English) by Jacques Feyder
20. 1939 : Le Château des quatre obèses by Yvan Noé
21. 1939 : Serge Panine by Charles Méré
22. 1939 : L'Étrange nuit de Noël by Yvan Noé
23. 1939 : Quartier latin by Pierre Colombier
24. 1940 : Le Collier de chanvre (released as Hangman's Noose in English) by Léon Mathot
25. 1940 : Campement 13 by Jacques Constant
26. 1941 : L'Enfer des anges by Christian-Jaque
27. 1945 : Ils étaient cinq permissionnaires by Pierre Caron
28. 1946 : Les Portes de la nuit by Marcel Carné
29. 1948 : Ulysse ou Les Mauvaises Rencontres short film (also known as Aller et retour) by Alexandre Astruc
30. 1948 : L'Amore anthology film by Roberto Rossellini
31. 1950 : Julie de Carneilhan by Jacques Manuel

• Michel Surya (2002) Georges Bataille: an intellectual biography, page 147
• Roudinesco, Élisabeth; Plon, Michel; et al. (2004). Wörterbuch der Psychoanalyse: Namen, Länder, Werke, Begriffe. Austria: Springer. p. 588. ISBN 3-211-83748-5. "Sie war die Mutter einer kleinen Tochter, Laurence Bataille (1930-1986)..."
• Hunt, Jamer Kennedy (1995). "Absence to presence: The life history of Sylvia Bataille Lacan (France)". Rice University Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
• "Sylvia Bataille". Cinémathèque française. Retrieved 2009-08-03.

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