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  <name><![CDATA[Jacques Lacan]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[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 French philosophy, as well as in the living practice of clinical psychoanalysis.
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  <title><![CDATA[Ecrits: The First Complete Edition in English]]></title>
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  <published>1966</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (The Seminar of Jacques Lacan , Book 11)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jacques Lacan]]></name>
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  <published>1973</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX, Encore]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jacques Lacan]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jacques Lacan]]></name>
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  <published>1986</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Ecrits: A Selection]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jacques Lacan]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.74</average_rating>
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  <published>1977</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Psychoses 1955-1956]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jacques Lacan]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book II : The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954-1955]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jacques Lacan]]></name>
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  <published>1983</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book I : Freud's Papers on Technique 1953-1954]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jacques Lacan]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.05</average_rating>
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  <published>1981</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jacques Lacan]]></name>
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  <published>1992</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Language of the Self: The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jacques Lacan]]></name>
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  <published>1968</published>  
  
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