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[[Lacan]]'s continued use of short sessions ensured that the latter was never recognized as a competent society by the [[International Psycho-Analytical Association]] ([[IPA]]). | [[Lacan]]'s continued use of short sessions ensured that the latter was never recognized as a competent society by the [[International Psycho-Analytical Association]] ([[IPA]]). | ||
In 1963, similar issues led to a split in the new association and to the foundation of the [[Ecole Freudienne de Paris]] (Psychoanalytic School of Paris), which was unilaterally dissolved by [[Lacan]] himself in 1980. | In 1963, similar issues led to a split in the new association and to the foundation of the [[Ecole Freudienne de Paris]] (Psychoanalytic School of Paris), which was unilaterally dissolved by [[Lacan]] himself in 1980. | ||
Revision as of 22:57, 4 August 2006
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 transcripts of the seminar began to be published during his lifetime, and twenty-six volumes re planned.
Career
Lacan's career was dogged by controversy and regularly punctuated by conflicts with the psychoanalytic establishment, most of them focusing on his refusal to follow the conventions of the 'analytic hour' and his insistence on using short sessions of varying length during training analyses.
In 1953 Lacan and others resigned from the Société Psychanalytique de Paris Société Parisienne de Psychanalyse (SPP) to found the Société Psychanalytique de France (SPF).
Lacan's continued use of short sessions ensured that the latter was never recognized as a competent society by the International Psycho-Analytical Association (IPA).
In 1963, similar issues led to a split in the new association and to the foundation of the Ecole Freudienne de Paris (Psychoanalytic School of Paris), which was unilaterally dissolved by Lacan himself in 1980.
