<div style="float:leftright;margin-rightleft:0.9em;line-height:3em;">[[Image:ZizekLacan.gif|none|Slavoj ŽižekJacques Lacan]]</div><div style="line-height:3em">'''Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan''' (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was a French [[psychoanalyst]]and [[psychiatrist]].
'''Slavoj Žižek''' (born March 21His work, 1949) is like most psychoanalytic work, owes a Slovenian sociologist, philosopher and cultural critic. He was born in Ljubljanaheavy, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia)explicit debt to [[Sigmund Freud]], and received but also drew from a D.A. in Philosophy in Ljubljana and studied Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party "Liberal Democracy of Slovenia" for president of the Republic of Slovenia.He received a Bachelor of Arts (philosophy and sociology, 1971), Master number of Arts (philosophyother fields, 1975)including [[linguistics]], and Doctor of Arts ([[philosophy]], 1981) at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana.He received a D.A. in Philosophy in Ljubljana in 1981 and studied Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris[[mathematics]].
'''This interdisciplinary focus in his work has led him to be an important figure in many fields beyond [[psychoanalysis]] - particularly within [[Slavoj Žižek|Continuecritical theory]]. His central idea was that the human subject is a creation of its use of language. From this understanding Lacan develops his study of psychoanalysis and his treatment strategies.His work, while controversial, continues to influence the development of psychoanalysis worldwide.In France and elsewhere various "schools" of Lacanian thought have emerged.]]''' '''[[No Subject:Featured ArticleJacques Lacan|ArchiveContinue...]]'''
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