Jacques Lacan (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Elisabeth Roudinesco
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1901-1981
- Setting: Primarily France
- Principal Characters: Jacques Lacan, Alfred Charles Marie Paul Lacan, Emilie Philippine Marie Baudry, Marie Louise Blondin, Caroline Marie Image, Thibault Lacan, Louis Althusser, Louis Bataille, Sylvia Bataille, Salvador Dali, Françoise Dolto, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Jacques-Alain Miller
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Intellectuals, France or French people, Self, Literature, Adultery, Consciousness, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts
- Locales: France
Jacques Lacan has had an enormous influence on psychoanalytic thinking and literary criticism both in Europe and in the United States. His concepts of the “mirror stage” by which the child comes to grapple with a consciousness of his own identity, and of the unconscious (which Lacan tied closely to the human being’s ability to construct a language of his thoughts) continue to fascinate intellectuals across several continents. Part of the fascination, however, results from the hard work of trying to piece together a system out of Lacan’s recondite articles. He wrote papers, not...
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