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Lacan meaning

A surname from French

Using Lacan

  • The main meaning on this page is: A surname from French
  • In the example corpus, lacan often appears in combinations such as: jacques lacan, lacan was, for lacan.

Context around Lacan

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 10 start, 10 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
jacques desire hill work 1980 influenced 1960s 1920s 162

Corpus analysis for Lacan

  • In this selection, "lacan" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, jacques, desire, hill, continued, fantasy and engaged stand out and add context to how "lacan" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include accuse jacques lacan of maintaining and and desire lacan engaged from. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "lacan" sits close to words such as abingdon, aborigines and abrahams, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with lacan

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment, and quickly. (10 words)

Dire Mastery: Discipleship From Freud to Lacan, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. (12 words)

After dissolving his School, the EFP, in January 1980, Lacan, J., "Letter of Dissolution". (14 words)

Despite this, many of structuralism's proponents, such as Lacan, continue to assert an influence on continental philosophy and many of the fundamental assumptions of some of structuralism's post-structuralist critics are a continuation of structuralism. (37 words)

Eclectic in his use of sources, Philip Hill, Lacan for Beginners (London 1997) p. 8 Lacan has been seen as concealing his own thought behind the apparent explication of that of others. (32 words)

Desire Lacan's concept of desire is related to Hegel's Begierde, a term that implies a continuous force, and therefore somehow differs from Freud's concept of Wunsch. (29 words)

Example sentences (20)

Eclectic in his use of sources, Philip Hill, Lacan for Beginners (London 1997) p. 8 Lacan has been seen as concealing his own thought behind the apparent explication of that of others.

Lacan continued to draw widely on various disciplines, working closely on classical Chinese literature with François Cheng Price, A., "Lacan's Remarks on Chinese Poetry".

Lacan, fantasy, and desire Lacan engaged from early on with 'the phantasies revealed by Melanie Klein.

Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment, and quickly.

This reminds one, again, of Kant (whose work Lacan knew), who says of the thing-in-itself that we ‘know that it is, but not what it is’.

After dissolving his School, the EFP, in January 1980, Lacan, J., "Letter of Dissolution".

A selection of the writings (chosen by Lacan himself) were translated by Alan Sheridan and published by Tavistock Press in 1977.

Bion's analytic work with groups influenced Lacan, contributing to his own subsequent emphasis on study groups as a structure within which to advance theoretical work in psychoanalysis.

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By the 1960s, Lacan was associated, at least in the public mind, with the far left in France.

By the mid-1920s, Lacan had become dissatisfied with religion and became an atheist.

Critics such as Elizabeth Grosz accuse Jacques Lacan of maintaining a sexist tradition in psychoanalysis.

Desire Lacan's concept of desire is related to Hegel's Begierde, a term that implies a continuous force, and therefore somehow differs from Freud's concept of Wunsch.

Despite this, many of structuralism's proponents, such as Lacan, continue to assert an influence on continental philosophy and many of the fundamental assumptions of some of structuralism's post-structuralist critics are a continuation of structuralism.

Dire Mastery: Discipleship From Freud to Lacan, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Evans, Dylan, An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, p. 162. Lacan returned to the theme of the Real in 1953 and continued to develop it until his death.

Evans, Dylan "From Lacan to Darwin", in The Literary Animal; Evolution and the Nature of Narrative, eds.

Ferenczi has found some favour in modern times among the followers of Jacques Lacan as well as among relational psychoanalysts in the United States.

For Lacan all drives are sexual drives, and every drive is a death drive (pulsion de mort) since every drive is excessive, repetitive and destructive.

For Lacan, the determinative dimension of human experience is neither the self (as in ego psychology) nor relations with others (as in object relations theory), but language.

For Lacan, the "woman" can either accept the phallic symbolic as an object or incarnate a lack in the symbolic dimension that informs the structure of the human subject.

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Common combinations with lacan

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Lacan means: A surname from French
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