Dominique Gilbert Laporte was a French writer and psychoanalyst, author of the book Histoire de la merde ("History of Shit").
In 1981 he received his doctorate in psychoanalysis from the University of Paris VIII, where he also taught in the department of psychoanalysis.
He wrote numerous articles on psychoanalysis, theology and art published in Le discours psychanalytique, Art press. and many other magazines. He worked frequently in the psychoanalytic journal Ornicar?.
Along with writing his own works, poems and essays, he was the editor of the French edition of the study by John G. Bourke “English Scatalogic Rites of All Nations: A Dissertation upon the Employment of Excrementicious Remedial Agents in Religion, Therapeutics, Divination, Witch-Craft, Love-Philters, etc. in all part of the Globe", first published in 1981 year.
He was friend with Michel Foucault and Edmond Jabès.