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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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“It is only once it is formulated, named in the presence of the other, that desire appears in the full sense of the term.”

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Book:[(The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 3: The Psychoses)] [Author: Jacques Lacan] published on

Source: [(The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 3: The Psychoses)] [Author: Jacques Lacan] published on

“Il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel.”

Sex Relationship Psychoanalysis Sexes

Book:The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis

Source: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis

“From an analytic point of view, the only thing one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one’s desire (Seminar 7, 319)”

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Book:The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960

Source: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960

“Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.”

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Author:Jacques Lacan

“As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.”

Humans May Lines Known Intimate Realms Dimensions Capture Imaginary Organisms Symbolic Psychoanalysis Recess Imaginary Lines

Author:Jacques Lacan

“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
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