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Psychoanalyst

Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst born on April 13, 1901, and died on September 9, 1981. He had a profound impact on the field of psychoanalysis, particularly within the structuralist and post-structuralist movements. Lacan's theories have had a wide-ranging influence on psychology, literature, and the arts.

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Famous Jacques Lacan Quotes

“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?”

Ifs Giving Doe Matter Universe Lovers Does It Matter

Author:Jacques Lacan

“...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.”

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Book:The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 2: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 19541955

Source: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 2: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 19541955

“If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.”

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Author:Jacques Lacan

About the Author

Born: April 13, 1901
Died: September 9, 1981
Known for: Psychoanalyst
Quotes: 45

Books & Sources

Écrits: a selectionRelated source material

The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960: The Seminar of Jacques LacanRelated source material

The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-AnalysisRelated source material

Il seminario. Libro VII: L'etica della psicoanalisiRelated source material

The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960Related source material

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 2: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 19541955Related source material

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Other Side of PsychoanalysisRelated source material

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