[[Jacques Lacan|Jacques-Marie Émile Lacan]] ([[Jacques Lacan:Chronology#1901|13 April 1901]] – [[Jacques Lacan:Chronology#1981|9 September 1981]]) was a [[French]] [[psychiatrist]] and [[psychoanalyst]].
[[Essentially a fringe figure in mainstream psychology, Lacan]] 's influence today is one of the most important – and controversial – figures prominent in the history of [[psychoanalysis]] whose influence had spread across a broad range of academic disciplineswhere his ideas are used to analyze fiction and films. Beyond a small number of devoted Lacanian analysts, his ideas have had essentially no influence on clinical psychology in the English-speaking world.<ref>Evans, Dylan. (2005) "[http://www.dylan.org.uk/lacan.pdf From Lacan to Darwin]", pp. 38-55 in ''The Literary Animal:Evolution and the Nature of Narrative'', eds. Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson,Evanston: Northwestern University Press.</ref> Moreoever, Lacan's psychoanalytic principles have not been rigorously tested for effectiveness,<ref>"There doesn't seem to be any data on the therapeutic effectiveness of Lacanian psychoanalysis in particular." Roustang, François. (1990) "[http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/lacanian-delusion/therapy.html The Lacanian Delusion]", London: Oxford University Press.</ref> and anecdotal data from Lacanian analysts suggest that in clinical practice Lacan's psychoanalytic methods rage from useless to harmful.<ref>Evans, 2005</ref>
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[[Lacan]]'s most important theoretical contributions to [[psychoanalysis]] were presented in his [[seminar]]s. In 1966, a selection of [[Lacan]]'s most important papers are published under the title ''[[Écrits]]''; in 2006 a complete edition of these works was published in English.
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