Return to Freud
Retour à Freud
Freud, return to (Freud, retour ‡) The whole of Lacan's work can
only be understood within the context of the intellectual and theoretical legacy
of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the founder of psychoanalysis. Lacan first
trained as a psychoanalyst within the INTERNATIONAL PSYCHO-ANALYTICAL
ASSOCIATION (IPA), the organisation founded by Freud which presented itself
as the sole legitimate heir to the Freudian legacy. However, Lacan gradually
The whole of Lacan's work can only be understood within the context of the intellectual and theoretical legacy of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.
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