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.
