Jacques Lacan




Jacques Lacan

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born
April 13, 1901

died
September 09, 1981

gender
male

place of birth
Paris, France

genre
Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Health, Mind & Body


about this author

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 twen...more




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Ecrits: The First Complete Edi... Ecrits: The First Complete Edition in English
by Jacques Lacan
avg rating 4.15 — 156 ratings — published 1966
3 editions
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The Four Fundamental Concepts... The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (The Seminar of Jacques Lacan , Book 11)
by Jacques Lacan
avg rating 4.07 — 123 ratings — published 1973
15 editions
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On Feminine Sexuality, the Lim... On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX, Encore
by Jacques Lacan
avg rating 4.09 — 80 ratings — published 1989
6 editions
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The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1... The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960
by Jacques Lacan
avg rating 4.15 — 60 ratings — published 1986
7 editions
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Ecrits: A Selection Ecrits: A Selection
by Jacques Lacan
avg rating 3.75 — 65 ratings — published 1977
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The Psychoses 1955-1956 The Psychoses 1955-1956
by Jacques Lacan
avg rating 4.42 — 33 ratings — published 1973
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan:... The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book II : The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954-1955
by Jacques Lacan
avg rating 4.42 — 26 ratings — published 1983
4 editions
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan:... The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book I : Freud's Papers on Technique 1953-1954
by Jacques Lacan
avg rating 4.05 — 20 ratings — published 1981
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan:... The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis
by Jacques Lacan
avg rating 4.31 — 16 ratings — published 1992
3 editions
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The Language of the Self: The... The Language of the Self: The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis
by Jacques Lacan
avg rating 3.75 — 12 ratings — published 1968
4 editions
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"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)
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"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

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Jacques Lacan
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"That the Sadian fantasy situates itself better in the bearers of Christian ethics than elsewhere is what our structural landmarks allow us to grasp easily. But that Sade, himself, refuses to be my neighbor, is what needs to be recalled, not in order to refuse it to him in return, but in order to recognize the meaning of this refusal. We believe that Sade is not close enough to his own wickedness to recognize his neighbor in it. A trait which he shares with many, and notably with Freud. For such is indeed the sole motive of the recoil of beings, sometimes forewarned, before the Christian commandment. For Sade, we see the test of this, crucial in our eyes, in his refusal of the death penalty, which history, if not logic, would suffice to show is one of the corollaries of Charity."
Jacques Lacan
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