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.
reason poetry-is
The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom
fields
The I is always in the field of the Other.
discourse unconscious
The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.
morning baltimore early-morning
The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.
language unconscious
The unconscious is structured like a language.
gestures faces cards
What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?
running aggravation risk
Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.
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.
way symbolic destroyed
But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.
lines may dimensions
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.
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!