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Biography. Early life. Lacan was born in Paris, the eldest of Émilie and Alfred Lacan's three children. His father was a successful soap and oils salesman. His mother was ardently Catholic – his younger brother entered a monastery in 1929. Lacan attended the Collège Stanislas between 1907 and 1918.
Apr 2, 2013 · Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (April 13, 1901 to September 9, 1981) was a major figure in Parisian intellectual life for much of the twentieth century. Sometimes referred to as “the French Freud,” he is an important figure in the history of psychoanalysis.
Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst who gained an international reputation as an original interpreter of Sigmund Freud’s work. Lacan earned a medical degree in 1932 and was a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Paris for much of his career.
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A 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, the Law, and ethics, and his relation to post-structuralism.
Jacques-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 institutional face of the psychoanalytic movement internationally.
Nov 26, 2019 · A comprehensive overview of Lacan's life, work, and legacy in psychoanalysis and philosophy. Learn about his key concepts, influences, controversies, and applications in various fields and disciplines.
He has written a most illuminating review of Antigone, In Her Unbearable Spendor: New Essays on Jacques Lacan’s The Ethics of Psychoanalysis by Charles Freedland (2013). A must read for any Lacanian scholar.
