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Lacan
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La·can  (l-kän, lä-kä), Jacques 1901-1981.
French psychiatrist who was an early adherent and interpreter of Freud's theories in France, but whose own theoretical and clinical work diverged greatly from Freud's. His collection of essays and lectures Écrits (1966) greatly influenced linguistics and literary theory.
Lacan (French) [lakɑ̃]
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(Biographies / Lacan, Jacques (1901-1981) M, French, MEDICINE: psychoanalyst, WRITING: structuralist) Jacques (ʒak). 1901-81, French psychoanalyst, who reinterpreted Freud in terms of structural linguistics: an important influence on poststructuralist thought


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In the '70s and '80s he came under attack from Lacanians for his insistence on a mode of vision beyond language, from feminists for his celebration of the nuclear family, from Marxists for his Emersonian doctrine of self-reliance.
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He identifies six branches of this particular ecole (Feminists, Marxists, Lacanians, New Historicists, Deconstructionists, and Semioticians), each of which seeks in its particular way to recast "great" literature as the product of some impersonal, material cause (gender politics, class ideology, etc.
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Both were unacceptable to us Lacanians, not only generally, but because in Slovenia the Communist Party was intelligent enough to adopt Frankfurt School Marxism as its official ideology.
The sublime theorist of Slovenia by Canning, Peter / Artforum International
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