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.


Works

Lacan offered his most important theoretical contributions to psychoanalysis by means of his seminar.

Lacan offered his most important theoretical contributions to psychoanalysis through his seminar.