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=====Overview=====
[[Psychoanalysis]] was founded by [[Sigmund Freud]]
Psychoanalysis originates with the work of Freud and remains rooted in his theories to this day, but every generation of analysts that came after Freud has sought to update and correct those theories, and to resolve the contradictions that he left behind. Lacan argued that through this process of continual revision psychoanalysis had lost sight of its original aims; that it had become conservative and reactionary. By playing down the more uncomfortable and disturbing aspects of the theory, especially the underlying presence of repressed, unconscious, desire in our mental lives, psychoanalysis had made itself respectable but it had lost its radical edge. In the early 1950s, therefore, Lacan famously declared the necessity of a 'return to Freud', that is to say, a return to the texts of Freud himself and to a close reading and understanding of those texts. For the next 26 years he would engage in this project of close reading, and in the process would reconstitute the theory of psychoanalysis.
[[Lacan]] presented a distinctive [[interpretation|reading]] of [[psychoanalysis]].
In 1951, [[Lacan]] made his call for a "[[return to Freud]].
=====Freudian Legacy=====
Furthermore, while it is true that [[Lacan]] returns to specific aspects of the [[Freud]]ian conceptual legacy, privileging [[Lacan]] is no more "faithful" to [[Freud]]'s [[Sigmund Freud:Bibliography|work]] than the post-Freudians whom he criticizes for having betrayed [[Freud]]'s [[message]]; like them, [[Lacan]] selects and develops certain themes in [[Freud]]'s [[Sigmund Freud:Bibliography|work]] and neglects or [[interpretation|reinterprets]] others.
'''[[Lacan]]ian [[psychoanalysis]] ''' might therefore be described as a "[[Freud|post-Freudian]]" form of [[psychoanalysis]], along with '''[[ego-psychology]]''', '''[[Kleinian psychoanalysis]]''' and ''[[object-relations theory]]'''.
=====Reading of Freud=====
