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[[Jacques Lacan|Jacques-Marie Émile Lacan]] (1901 – 1981) was a [[French]] [[psychoanalyst]].
a major figure in the history of psychoanalysis
[[Lacan]] has become an important figure in many fields beyond [[psychoanalysis]].
The most controversial [[psychoanalyst]] since [[Freud]] himself, [[Lacan]] has had an immense influence on literary theory, philosophy, and feminism, as well as on [[psychoanalysis]] itself.
[[Lacan]]'s work has done more than that of any other analyst to make psychoanalysis a central reference to w hole field of discipline within the human sciences.
==Works==
[[Lacan]] offered his most significant contributions through his [[seminar]] lectures.
[[Lacan]]'s most important papers are collected in his ''[[Écrits]]'' (1966); fewer than one-third of them are included in the English ''[[Écrits: A Selection]]'' (1977).
Until the publication of ''[[Écrits]]'', the main vector for the dissemination of his ideas was the weekly [[seminar] that began in 1953 and continued until shortly before his death. (confused over a period of more than two decades)
Editted transripts of the [[seminar]] began to be published during his lifetime, and twenty-six volumes re planned.
