1901 - 1981
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.
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Among psychologists, Jacques Lacan ranks 8 out of 182. Before him are Carl Jung, Jean Piaget, Abraham Maslow, Alfred Adler, Erich Fromm, and John Dewey. After him are Lev Vygotsky, Erik Erikson, Wilhelm Wundt, William James, Carl Rogers, and Viktor Frankl.
1875 - 1961
HPI: 86.42
Rank: 2
1896 - 1980
HPI: 85.03
Rank: 3
1908 - 1970
HPI: 83.65
Rank: 4
1870 - 1937
HPI: 83.57
Rank: 5
1900 - 1980
HPI: 83.41
Rank: 6
1859 - 1952
HPI: 82.66
Rank: 7
1901 - 1981
HPI: 81.98
Rank: 8
1896 - 1934
HPI: 81.98
Rank: 9
1902 - 1994
HPI: 81.41
Rank: 10
1832 - 1920
HPI: 81.02
Rank: 11
1842 - 1910
HPI: 80.83
Rank: 12
1902 - 1987
HPI: 80.56
Rank: 13
1905 - 1997
HPI: 80.15
Rank: 14
Among people born in 1901, Jacques Lacan ranks 8. Before him are Hirohito, Werner Heisenberg, Louis Armstrong, Marlene Dietrich, Enrico Fermi, and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. After him are Linus Pauling, Sukarno, Rudolf Höss, Clark Gable, Fulgencio Batista, and Leopold III of Belgium. Among people deceased in 1981, Jacques Lacan ranks 3. Before him are Bob Marley and Anwar Sadat. After him are Albert Speer, Moshe Dayan, Max Euwe, William Wyler, Hans Adolf Krebs, Marcel Breuer, Frederica of Hanover, Soong Ching-ling, and Natalie Wood.
1901 - 1989
HPI: 85.39
Rank: 2
1901 - 1976
HPI: 84.24
Rank: 3
1901 - 1971
HPI: 83.90
Rank: 4
1901 - 1992
HPI: 83.87
Rank: 5
1901 - 1954
HPI: 82.49
Rank: 6
1901 - 1918
HPI: 82.16
Rank: 7
1901 - 1981
HPI: 81.98
Rank: 8
1901 - 1994
HPI: 80.26
Rank: 9
1901 - 1970
HPI: 80.11
Rank: 10
1901 - 1947
HPI: 79.63
Rank: 11
1901 - 1960
HPI: 79.54
Rank: 12
1901 - 1973
HPI: 79.27
Rank: 13
1901 - 1983
HPI: 79.19
Rank: 14
1945 - 1981
HPI: 88.07
Rank: 1
1918 - 1981
HPI: 82.94
Rank: 2
1901 - 1981
HPI: 81.98
Rank: 3
1905 - 1981
HPI: 81.56
Rank: 4
1915 - 1981
HPI: 79.48
Rank: 5
1901 - 1981
HPI: 75.24
Rank: 6
1902 - 1981
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 7
1900 - 1981
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 8
1902 - 1981
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 9
1917 - 1981
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 10
1893 - 1981
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 11
1938 - 1981
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Jacques Lacan ranks 118 out of 5,234. Before him are Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708), Georges Danton (1759), François Villon (1431), Nicolas Flamel (1330), Joseph Fourier (1768), and Madame de Pompadour (1721). After him are Philippe Pétain (1856), Anatole France (1844), Louis XVII of France (1785), Alexandre Dumas fils (1824), Georges Braque (1882), and Pope Clement V (1264).
1708 - 1765
HPI: 82.23
Rank: 112
1759 - 1794
HPI: 82.22
Rank: 113
1431 - 1463
HPI: 82.19
Rank: 114
1330 - 1425
HPI: 82.17
Rank: 115
1768 - 1830
HPI: 82.16
Rank: 116
1721 - 1764
HPI: 82.03
Rank: 117
1901 - 1981
HPI: 81.98
Rank: 118
1856 - 1951
HPI: 81.98
Rank: 119
1844 - 1924
HPI: 81.97
Rank: 120
1785 - 1795
HPI: 81.94
Rank: 121
1824 - 1895
HPI: 81.91
Rank: 122
1882 - 1963
HPI: 81.91
Rank: 123
1264 - 1314
HPI: 81.84
Rank: 124
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), and Jean Laplanche (1924).
1901 - 1981
HPI: 81.98
Rank: 1
1841 - 1931
HPI: 79.94
Rank: 2
1857 - 1911
HPI: 76.07
Rank: 3
1882 - 1962
HPI: 74.86
Rank: 4
1859 - 1947
HPI: 71.42
Rank: 5
1839 - 1916
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 6
1857 - 1926
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 7
1879 - 1962
HPI: 66.96
Rank: 8
1908 - 1988
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 9
1924 - 2012
HPI: 63.91
Rank: 10