Lacan, Jacques(1901–1981)
Jacques Lacan is undoubtedly the most philosophical of psychoanalytic authors. He developed his psychoanalytic theory of subjectivity—as a ferocious critique of...
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After World War II French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) became a cult hero, a formidable intellectual superstar whose "structural psychoanalysis," first in France and later at American elite...
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Jacques Lacan occupies a fundamental position in French psychoanalytic theory. Lacan's reinterpretation of Freudian psychoanalytic theory as influenced by Ferdinand de Saussure's structural linguistic...
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We follow Lacan and return to Freud, only to find ourselves arriving at the knowledge that the unconscious operates like translating without the original text. There goes a process of representi...
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