Jacques Lacan

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born

April 13, 1901 in Paris, France

died

September 09, 1981

gender

male

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Nonfiction, Psychology, Psychoanalysis

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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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	Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English by Jacques Lacan, Bruce Fink (Translator) 4.11 avg rating — 571 ratings — published 1966 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (The Seminar of Jacques Lacan , Book 11) 4.07 avg rating — 287 ratings — published 1973 — 12 editions	My rating:
	On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX: Encore by Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller (Editor), Bruce Fink (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1981 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Ecrits: A Selection by Jacques Lacan, Alan Sheridan (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 1977 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 by Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller, Dennis Porter (Translator) 4.18 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 1986 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Psychoses 1955-1956 by Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller (Editor), Russell Grigg (Translator) 4.36 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1973 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Freud's Papers on Technique by Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller, John Forrester (Translator) 4.15 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1975 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955 by Jacques Lacan, Sylvana Tomaselli (Translator) 4.35 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis by Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller (Editor), Russell Grigg (Translator) 4.39 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	My rating:
	My Teaching by Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller (Editor), David Macey (Translator) 3.51 avg rating — 55 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:

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Le Séminaire (19 books)
by Jacques Lacan, A. Di Ciaccia (Editor)

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

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