Jacques Lacan (1901–1981)
Author of The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
About the Author
Jacques Lacan was born into an upper-middle-class Parisian family. He received psychiatric and psychoanalytic training, and his clinical training began in 1927. His doctoral thesis, "On Paranoia and Its Relation to Personality," already indicated an original thinker; in it he tried to show that no show more physiological phenomenon could be adequately understood without taking into account the entire personality, including its engagement with a social milieu. Practicing in France, Lacan led a "back to Freud" movement in the most literal sense, at a time when others were trying to interpret Sigmund Freud (see also Vol. 3) broadly. He emphasized the role of the image and the role of milieu in personality organization. Seeking to reinterpret Freud's theories in terms of structural linguistics, Lacan believed that Freud's greatest insight was his understanding of the "talking cure" as revelatory of the unconscious. By taking Freud literally, Lacan led a psychoanalytic movement that evolved into a very specific school of interpretation. Often embroiled in controversy, in the 1950s he opposed the standardization of training techniques, the classification of psychoanalysis as a medical treatment, and the then emerging school of ego psychology. Although general readers may find Lacan difficult to read, his works are provocative and rewarding. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Jacques Lacan
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (1973) 752 copies, 2 reviews
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 (1986) 307 copies, 1 review
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX, Encore: On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge, 1972-73 (1975) 301 copies, 3 reviews
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955 (1978) 197 copies
O Seminário. Livro 19. ...Ou Pior. Coleção Campo Freudiano no Brasil (Em Portuguese do Brasil) (2011) 30 copies, 1 review
Talking to Brick Walls: A Series of Presentations in the Chapel at Sainte-Anne Hospital (2011) 12 copies, 1 review
Os Complexos Familiares. Coleção Campo Freudiano no Brasil (Em Portuguese do Brasil) (1987) 12 copies
The Mirror Stage 8 copies
Escritos 1 - Primera parte 3 copies
What is a Picture? 2 copies
Scritti I 2 copies
Shakespeare, Duras, Wedekind, Joyce 2 copies
Os Complexos Familiares 2 copies
Lembi di reale 2 copies
Funkcja i pole mówienia i mowy w psychoanalizie : referat wygłoszony na kongresie rzymskim 26-27 września 1953… (1996) 2 copies
The Lacanian Review 7: Get Real (The Lacanian Review - International Journal of Lacanian Psychoanalysis) (2019) 1 copy
Écrits I 1 copy
Scritti I II 1 copy
L'amour. 1 copy
Scilicet n. 5 1 copy
ディスクール 1 copy
Mi-dire... 1 copy
L'amour 1 copy
エクリ 2 1 copy
MESIMET E MIA 1 copy
Lingua 1 copy
Lacan [opere di] 1 copy
Schriften 1 copy
Scilicet n. 2/3 1 copy
scritti ,volume primo 1 copy
Απαντήσεις 1 copy
Lacan 1 copy
Le Désir (Hamlet) 1 copy
scritti, volume secondo 1 copy
La scission de 1953 1 copy
L'angoisse 1 copy
L'identification 1 copy
Pas tout 1926-1931 1 copy
Τό σεμινάριο 1 copy
Escritos II 1 copy
Associated Works
The Structuralist Controversy: The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man (1970) — Contributor — 96 copies
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- Canonical name
- Lacan, Jacques
- Legal name
- Lacan, Jacques Marie Émile
- Birthdate
- 1901-04-13
- Date of death
- 1981-09-09
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- France
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Cause of death
- colon cancer
- Places of residence
- Paris, France
- Education
- Collège Stanislas, Paris
Saint-Anne Hospital
University of Paris (MD)
École spéciale des langues orientales - Occupations
- psychoanalyst
psychiatrist - Relationships
- Makles, Sylvia (wife)
Miller, Judith (daughter)
Miller, Jacques-Alain (son-in-law)
Lacan, Sibylle (daughter) - Organizations
- École Pratique des Hautes Études
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Statistics
- Works
- 174
- Also by
- 2
- Members
- 5,381
- Popularity
- #4,630
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 27
- ISBNs
- 335
- Languages
- 14
- Favorited
- 14
"The true religion is the Roman one. To try to put all religions in the same basket and do what is called "the history of religions" is truly awful. There is one true religion and that is the Christian religion. The question is simply whether this truth will stand up - namely, if it will be able to secrete meaning to such an extent that we will truly drown in it. It will manage to do so, that's certain, because it is resourceful."
"for the average Joe - for this carnal being, this repugnant personage-the drama begins only when the Word is involved, when it is incarnated, as the true religion says. It is when the Word is incarnated that things really start going badly. Man is no longer at all happy, he no longer resembles at all a little dog who wags his tail or a nice monkey who masturbates. He no longer resembles anything. He is ravaged by the Word."
"There are, in fact, little domains where philosophy might still have something to say. Unfortunately, it is rather curious that philosophy shows so many signs of aging. Okay, Heidegger said two or three sensible things. But it has nevertheless been a very long time since philosophy has said anything that might interest everyone. Moreover, it never says anything that interests everyone. When it does say something, it says things that are of interest to two or three people. After that, it shifts to universities and then it's shot - there is no longer the slightest philosophy, even imaginable."
"What a sublime relief it would be nonetheless if we suddenly had to deal with a true blight, a blight that came from the hands of the biologists. That would be a true triumph. It would mean that humanity would truly have achieved something - its own destruction. It would be a true sign of the superiority of one being over all the others. Not only its own destruction, but the destruction of the entire living world. That would truly be the sign that man is capable of something. But it gets them quaking a bit in their boots, all the same. We aren't there yet."
"What scientific discourse unmasks is that nothing any longer remains of a transcendental aesthetic by which harmony would be established, even if that harmony were [now] lost, between our intuitions and the world. No analogy can henceforth be established between physical reality and any sort of universal man. Physical reality is fully and totally inhuman."
"The death instinct is, nevertheless, the response of the Thing when we don't want to know anything about it. It doesn't know anything about us either. But isn't this also a form of sublimation around which man's being, once again, turns on its hinges? Isn't libido - about which Freud tells us that no force in man is more readily sublimated, the last fruit of sublimation with which modern man responds to his solitude?"
"nothing in the concrete life of a single individual allows us to ground the idea that such a finality directs his life and could lead him - through the pathways of progressive self-consciousness undergirded by natural development - to harmony with himself as well as to approval from the world on which his happiness depends."
"Yes, we come back to Plato. It is pretty easy to come back to Plato. Plato said a huge number of banalities and naturally we return to them.”… (more)