Jacques Lacan

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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.