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Lacan

[ luh-kahn, ‑-kahn ]

noun

  1. Jacques, 1901–81, French philosopher and psychoanalyst.


Lacan

/ ɑ̃ /

noun

  1. LacanJacques19011981MFrenchMEDICINE: psychoanalystWRITING: structuralist Jacques (ʒak). 1901–81, French psychoanalyst, who reinterpreted Freud in terms of structural linguistics: an important influence on poststructuralist thought
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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A pair of French guards, Carla Leite and Leila Lacan, went next to Dallas and Connecticut, respectively.

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French guards Carla Leite and Leila Lacan are also considered to be second-round draft prospects.

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Mari Ruti, who in wide-ranging writings on gender and sexuality found food for thought not only in psychoanalysts like Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan but also in online pornography, self-help books and a Julia Roberts movie, died on June 8 at a hospital near her home in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia.

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“You shouldn’t need four years of study of Lacan and Deleuze and Adorno and whoever to understand art,” Kline told me.

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It borrows from psychoanalysis — Jacques Lacan’s theories about language and speech — and has an insistent materiality, despite being laden with text.

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