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=== Heidegger ===
[[Lacan]] established a personal friendship with [[Heidegger,]] , visiting him and translating some of his works.
[[Heidegger]]'s influence on [[Lacan]]'s work can be seen in [[Lacan]]'s metaphysical discussions of [[being]], and in the distinction between full [[speech|full speech]] and [[speech|empty speech]].
These are only the philosophers to whom [[Lacan]] refers most frequently; he also discusses the work of many other philosophers such as [[St Augustine]], [[Spinoza]], [[Sartre]], and others.
[[Lacan]]'s work engages with many philosophical schools and areas of enquiry.
In his early work he shows a bent towards [[phenomenology]], even presenting a "phenomenological description of the psychoanalytic experience" in 1936,<ref>{{Ec}} p.82-5</ref> but he later becomes quite opposed to [[phenomenology]], and in 1964 presents a critique of [[Merleau-Ponty]]'s ''[[Phenomenology of Perception]]''.<ref>{{S11}} p.71-6</ref>
Insofar as [[psychoanalysis]] engages with ontological questions, [[Lacan]] aligns [[psychoanalysis]] with [[materialism]], against all forms of [[idealism]].
