Jacques Lacan
Jacques Lacan
Jacques Marie Émile Lacan, known simply as Jacques Lacan, was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud". Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan influenced many leading French intellectuals in the 1960s and the 1970s, especially those associated with post-structuralism. His ideas had a significant impact on post-structuralism, critical theory, linguistics, 20th-century French philosophy, film theory and clinical psychoanalysis...
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth13 April 1901
drama facts would-be
The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.
mirrors stage function
The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.
men goes-on
Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.
purity defects universe
I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.
people secret mysterious
Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.
way symbolic destroyed
But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.
absence units symbols
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
passion psychosis community
The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.
real desire dimensions
Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension
desire guilty given
The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.
running aggravation risk
Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.
men firsts language
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
communication men splits
We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.