Jacques Lacan
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| Name: | Jacques Lacan |
| Birth: | 13 April 1901 |
| Tradition: | Psychoanalysis |
| Interests: | Art, Cinema, Politics |
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| Influences: | Hegel, Saussure, Freud |
Jacques-Marie Émile Lacan (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
A major figure in the history of psychoanalysis, the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud himself, Lacan has had an enormous influence throughout a broad range of disciplines within the human sciences.
