PSYCHOLOGIST

Jacques Lacan

1901 - 1981

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Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (UK: , US: lə-KAHN; French: [ʒak maʁi emil lakɑ̃]; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud", Lacan gave yearly seminars in Paris, from 1953 to 1981, and published papers that were later collected in the book Écrits. Transcriptions of his seminars, given between 1954 and 1976, were also published. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Lacan has received more than 3,182,769 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Jacques Lacan is the 9th most popular psychologist (up from 10th in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from France (down from 118th in 2019) and the most popular French Psychologist.

Jacques Lacan is most famous for his idea that the unconscious is structured like a language. This idea is based on the idea that the unconscious is structured like a language.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Jacques Lacan ranks 9 out of 235. Before him are Jean Piaget, Alfred Adler, Abraham Maslow, Erich Fromm, Lev Vygotsky, and Wilhelm Wundt. After him are John Dewey, Viktor Frankl, William James, Erik Erikson, Carl Rogers, and Gustave Le Bon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Jacques Lacan ranks 9. Before him are Werner Heisenberg, Marlene Dietrich, Enrico Fermi, Leopold III of Belgium, Louis Armstrong, and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. After him are Sukarno, Fulgencio Batista, Ngo Dinh Diem, Linus Pauling, Clark Gable, and Rudolf Höss. Among people deceased in 1981, Jacques Lacan ranks 4. Before him are Bob Marley, Anwar Sadat, and Moshe Dayan. After him are Albert Speer, Soong Ching-ling, Max Euwe, Natalie Wood, Frederica of Hanover, Hideki Yukawa, William Holden, and William Wyler.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Lacan ranks 135 out of 6,770. Before him are Saint Sebastian (300), Joseph Fourier (1768), Catherine Deneuve (1943), Paul Verlaine (1844), Albert Schweitzer (1875), and Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717). After him are Charles V of France (1338), François Villon (1431), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122), Joachim Murat (1767), and Louis XVIII of France (1755).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In France

Among psychologists born in France, Jacques Lacan ranks 1. After him are Gustave Le Bon (1841), Alfred Binet (1857), Princess Marie Bonaparte (1882), Pierre Janet (1859), Théodule-Armand Ribot (1839), Émile Coué (1857), Henri Wallon (1879), Françoise Dolto (1908), Boris Cyrulnik (1937), Jean Laplanche (1924), and Jacques-Alain Miller (1944).

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