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<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.9em;line-height:3em;"><center>'''Guide to Lacanian Psychoanalysis'''</center>;Reference;Freudian Terrain;The Legacy of Surrealism;The Uses of Philosophy;The Functions of Language;Lacan ;The Imaginary;From the Imaginary to the Symbolic;The Symbolic;The Family and the Individual;The Oedipus Complex and the Meaning of the Phallus;From the Symbolic to the Real;The Subject of the Unconscious;The Psychoanalyst as Textual Analyst;The Real;The Impossible Real;[[Guide/Sexual Difference|Sexual Difference]]:[[Guide/Sexual_Difference#Introduction|Introduction]]:[[Guide/Sexual_Difference#|Freud and the Enigma of Feminine Sexuality]]:[[Guide/Sexual_Difference#|To Have or to Be the Phallus?]]:[[Guide/Sexual_Difference#|Femininity as Masquerade]]:[[Guide/Sexual_Difference#|The Woman Does Not Exist]]:[[Guide/Sexual_Difference#|''Encore'': The Theory of Sexuation]]::[[Guide/Sexual_Difference#|Masculinity]]::[[Guide/Sexual_Difference#|Femininity]]:[[ImageGuide/Sexual_Difference#|There is No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship]]:Lacan.gif[[Guide/Sexual_Difference#|noneCourtly Love]]:[[Guide/Sexual_Difference#Summary|Jacques LacanSummary]];Sexuality and Science=;Sexuality, Love and Feminism;Lacan and Film;Lacan and Literature;After Lacan
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'''Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan''' (April 13, 1901 &ndash; September 9, 1981) was a French [[psychoanalyst]] and [[psychiatrist]].
 
His work, like most psychoanalytic work, owes a heavy, explicit debt to [[Sigmund Freud]], but also drew from a number of other fields, including [[linguistics]], [[philosophy]], and [[mathematics]].
 
This interdisciplinary focus in his work has led him to be an important figure in many fields beyond [[psychoanalysis]] - particularly within [[critical theory]].
His central idea was that the human subject is a creation of its use of language. From this understanding Lacan develops his study of psychoanalysis and his treatment strategies. His work, while controversial, continues to influence the development of psychoanalysis worldwide. In France and elsewhere various "schools" of Lacanian thought have emerged.  '''[[Jacques Lacan|Continue...]]'''</div>__NOTOC__
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