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    Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was born on April 13, 1901, and died on September 9, 1981. He was a French psychoanalyst and philosopher and was a very controversial figure on the French psychoanalytic scene.
    Elizabeth A. Grosz writes in her Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction that "Shortly after the tumultuous events of May 1968, Lacan was accused by the authorities of being a subversive, and directly influencing the events that transpired."
    Dubbed “the French Freud,” Lacan significantly broadened and deepened Freudianism through putting Freud’s discoveries into conversation with a wide range of other disciplines and orientations.
    In his seventh seminar on The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (1959–1960), Lacan took a sort of turn fateful for the direction of his later trajectory, initiating an interrogation of the ways in which language was privileged by his 1950s “return to Freud.”
  2. WEBA comprehensive overview of the life and work of Jacques Lacan, a influential French psychoanalyst and philosopher. Learn about his theoretical project, his concepts of the mirror stage, desire, the Other, …

  3. WEBJacques-Marie-Émile Lacan (French IPA: [ʒak la'kɑ̃]) (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor. Lacan’s ‘return to the meaning of Freud ’ profoundly changed the …