Jacques Lacan





Jacques Lacan

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born
April 13, 1901 in Paris, France

died
September 09, 1981

gender
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Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor, who made prominent contributions to the psychoanalytic movement. His yearly seminars, conducted in Paris from 1953 until his death in 1981, were a major influence in the French intellectual milieu of the 1960s and 1970s, particularly among post-structuralist thinkers.

Lacan's ideas centered on Freudian concepts such as the unconscious, the castration complex, the ego, focusing on identifications, and the centrality of language to subjectivity. His work was interdisciplinary, drawing on linguistics, philosophy, mathematics, amongst others. Although a controversial and divisive figure, Lacan is widely read in critical theory, literary studies, and twentieth-century...more


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The Four Fundamental Concep...
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On Feminine Sexuality, the ...
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Ecrits: A Selection
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The Psychoses 1955-1956
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My Teaching
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Le Séminaire (19 books)
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“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?


Jacques Lacan

“But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.”
Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis

“The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.”
Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Freud's Papers on Technique