Lacan
French psychoanalytic thinker
Lacan refers to Jacques Lacan (1901–1981), a French psychoanalyst whose reinterpretation of Freud through linguistics and philosophy made him one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century.
His concepts—the mirror stage, the symbolic order, the Real—permeate literary theory, film criticism, and continental philosophy.
A Lacanian reading of the text applies his framework.
Lacan's notoriously difficult prose and theatrical seminars cultivated both devoted followers and fierce critics.
Lacanian describes work influenced by his ideas.
Intense wanting
- lackDeficiency or absence
- signifierMeaning-bearing form
- castrationExcision of reproductive glands
- phallusMale organ symbol
unconscious · subject · alienation · foreclosure · drive · demand · splitting · ego
Meaning-bearing form
- signifiedExpressed meaning symbolically
- chainLinked segments forming length
- metaphorImplied identity comparison
- metonymySubstituting associated name
speech · language · structure · meaning · sliding · punctuation · enunciation · linguistics
One who examines systematically
- sessionScheduled time for activity
- transferenceRedirecting feelings to substitutes
- interpretationAssigned meaning
- cureTreatment that heals
neurosis · psychosis · perversion · resistance · free association · couch · practice · ethics
Analysis through underlying systems
- post-structuralismTheory rejecting stable meaning
- HegelGerman absolute idealist philosopher
- HeideggerExistential ontology's founder
- dialecticLogical argument through opposition
phenomenology · ontology · being · negativity · Sartre · Derrida · Foucault · continental
Formal barring from sacraments
- IPASound notation system
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
- teachingProfession of instructing others
- transmissionSending of information
cartel · Paris · disciples · schism · orthodox · revisionist · legacy
desire
Intense wanting
- lackDeficiency or absence
- signifierMeaning-bearing form
- castrationExcision of reproductive glands
phallus · unconscious · subject · alienation · foreclosure · drive · demand · splitting · ego · identification
signifier
Meaning-bearing form
- signifiedExpressed meaning symbolically
- chainLinked segments forming length
- metaphorImplied identity comparison
metonymy · speech · language · structure · meaning · sliding · punctuation · enunciation · linguistics · semantics
analyst
One who examines systematically
- sessionScheduled time for activity
- transferenceRedirecting feelings to substitutes
- interpretationAssigned meaning
cure · neurosis · psychosis · perversion · resistance · free association · couch · practice · ethics · training
structuralism
Analysis through underlying systems
- post-structuralismTheory rejecting stable meaning
- HegelGerman absolute idealist philosopher
- HeideggerExistential ontology's founder
dialectic · phenomenology · ontology · being · negativity · Sartre · Derrida · Foucault · continental · subjectivity
excommunication
Formal barring from sacraments
- IPASound notation system
- dissolutionBreaking up completely
- teachingProfession of instructing others
transmission · cartel · Paris · disciples · schism · orthodox · revisionist · legacy
- philosophyethics, logic, metaphysics, ontology, epistemology
- psychoanalysisFreud, id, ego, unconscious, Sigmund Freud
- French ThinkersDescartes, Sartre, Foucault, Voltaire, Rousseau
- French ThoughtDescartes, Sartre, Foucault, Derrida, Camus
- PsychologistsFreud, Jung, Piaget, Skinner, Maslow
- French TheoryDerrida, Foucault, structuralism, poststructuralism, deconstruction
Lacanbehaviorism
Psychology studying observable conduct
B.F. Skinner · cognitive behavioral therapy · John Watson · positive psychology · Sigmund Freud
Lacanbehaviorism
Psychology studying observable conduct
neuroscience · cognitive science · psychometrics · positivism · evidence-based practice
LacanBertrand Russell
clarity · A.J. Ayer · plain speech · William James · clear prose