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Jacques Lacan is one of the most challenging and controversial contemporary thinkers, as well as the most influential [[:Category:Psychoanalysts|psychoanalyst ]] since [[Freud]]. Lacanian theory has reached far beyond the consulting room to engage with such diverse disciplines as [[literature]], [[film]], [[gender]] and [[social theory]]. This introduction provides an accessible guide to Lacanian oncepts and his writing on:* the [[imaginary ]] and the [[symbolic]]* the [[Oedipus ]] [[complex ]] and the [[meaning ]] of the [[phallus]]*the [[subject ]] and the unconsciousu[[nconscious]]*the [[real]]*[[sexual difference]]. This introduction locates Lacan's work in the context of contemporary French thought and the history of [[psychoanalysis]].