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Jacques Lacan (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (April 13, 1901 to September 9, 1981) was a celebrity thinker in Parisian intellectual life for much of the twentieth century. Sometimes referred to as “the French Freud,” he is a towering figure in the history of psychoanalysis. His teachings and writings explore the significance of Freud’s discovery of the unconscious both within the theory and practice of analysis itself as well as in connection with a wide range of other disciplines. Particularly for those interested in the philosophical dimensions of Freudian thought, Lacan’s oeuvre is invaluable. Over the course of the past fifty-plus years, Lacanian ideas have become central to the various receptions of things psychoanalytic in Continental philosophical circles especially.

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