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Jacques Lacan

Born

in Paris, France

April 13, 1901

Died

September 09, 1981

Genre

Philosophy, Psychology, Psychoanalysis

Influences

Martin Heidegger, Sigmund Freud, Alexandre Kojève, Claude Lévi-Strauss ...more

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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 by Jacques Lacan, Bruce Fink (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 3,419 ratings — published 1966 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis by Jacques Lacan, Alan Sheridan (Translator), Jacques-Alain Miller (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 1,858 ratings — published 1973 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX: Encore by Jacques Lacan, Bruce Fink (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jacques-Alain Miller (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 638 ratings — published 1975 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 1, Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954 by Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller, John Forrester (Translator) 4.15 avg rating — 616 ratings — published 1953 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 by Jacques Lacan, Dennis Porter (Translator), Jacques Alain-Miller (Editor) 4.26 avg rating — 543 ratings — published 1986 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Teaching by Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller (Editor), David Macey (Translator) 3.50 avg rating — 510 ratings — published 2009 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Écrits: A Selection by Jacques Lacan, Alan Sheridan (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 445 ratings — published 1977 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Psychoses (Seminar of Jacques Lacan (Paperback)) (Book III) by Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller (Translator), Russell Grigg (Translator) 4.22 avg rating — 400 ratings — published 1920 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	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), Jacques-Alain Miller (Editor) 4.28 avg rating — 382 ratings — published 1978 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis 4.34 avg rating — 267 ratings — published 1969 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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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“Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.”
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“The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.”
― Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 1, Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954

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