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This portal provides structured access to the principal figures associated with psychoanalysis, with particular emphasis on Lacanian theory, its antecedents, and its contemporary interpreters.



Founders and Precursors

Figures foundational to the emergence of psychoanalysis.

  • Sigmund Freud
  • Karl Abraham
  • Sándor Ferenczi

  • Jacques Lacan and His Circle

    Lacan and central figures in the development of Lacanian theory.

  • Jacques Lacan
  • Jacques-Alain Miller
  • Françoise Dolto
  • Serge Leclaire

  • Contemporary Interpreters

    Thinkers extending or engaging Lacanian psychoanalysis today.

  • Slavoj Žižek
  • Alain Badiou
  • Joan Copjec


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