Lacan's Viator and The Time Traveller's Wife

When I was asked two months ago for a title for this paper I was still reading what is called an international best-seller that I had begun earlier in the summer. The Time Traveller's Wife[1] is not going to win a Pulitzer Prize or a Mann Booker award but it does chime in uncannily with Lacan's discussion of the fundamental phantasy that 'supports all of those who want to be non-dupes in structure: namely, that their life is only a journey.…