Jacques Lacan
Jacques Lacan
Jacques Marie Émile Lacan, known simply as Jacques Lacan, was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud". Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan influenced many leading French intellectuals in the 1960s and the 1970s, especially those associated with post-structuralism. His ideas had a significant impact on post-structuralism, critical theory, linguistics, 20th-century French philosophy, film theory and clinical psychoanalysis...
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth13 April 1901
mirrors world this-world
All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.
fields
The I is always in the field of the Other.
discourse unconscious
The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.
gestures faces cards
What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?
absence units symbols
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
mirrors stage function
The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.
purity defects universe
I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.
psychics waiting needs
The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!
abstract broken emphasis essential general original phenomena remain type whose work
But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.