Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan

Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (UK: , US: , French: [ʒak maʁi emil lakɑ̃]; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) 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’s work has marked the French and international intellectual landscape, having made a significant impact on continental philosophy and cultural theory in areas such as post-structuralism, critical theory, feminist theory and film theory as well as on psychoanalysis itself. Lacan took up and discussed the whole range of Freudian concepts emphasising the philosophical dimension of Freud’s thought and applying concepts derived from structuralism in linguistics and anthropology to its development in his own work which he would further augment by employing formulae from predicate logic and topology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Lacan has received more than 2,306,971 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Jacques Lacan is the 8th most popular psychologist, the 118th most popular biography from France (down from 111th 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.