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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 86. Chapters: Ferdinand de Saussure, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Moshe Safdie, Roland Barthes, Claude Levi-Strauss, Jacques Ehrmann, Biogenetic structuralism, Course in General Linguistics, Structural anthropology, Functionalism versus intentionalism, Structural linguistics, Naomi Schor, Mirror stage, Alliance theory, The Imaginary, Jonathan Culler, Anthony Wilden, Textuality, Antihumanism, The Copenhagen school, Gerard Genette, Name of the Father, Mythologies, The Symbolic, Objet petit a, French structuralist feminism, The Seminars of Jacques Lacan, The Real, Emile Benveniste, Geneva School, Prague Linguistic Circle, Lack, The Savage Mind, New rhetorics, Sinthome, Exchange of women, Charles Bally, Aldo van Eyck, Shadrach Woods, Jouissance, Claude Calame, Structural Marxism, Francois Wahl, Herman Hertzberger, Giancarlo De Carlo, Discontinuity, Alf Sommerfelt, Jaap Bakema, Laszlo Antal, Halen Estate, Lucien Kroll, Piet Blom, Elements of Semiology, Functional structuralism, Structuralism in international relations theory. Excerpt: Jacques Marie Emile Lacan (French pronunciation: April 13, 1901 - September 9, 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who made prominent contributions to psychoanalysis and philosophy, and has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud." Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan influenced France's intellectuals in the 1960s and the 1970s, especially the post-structuralist philosophers. His interdisciplinary work was as a "self-proclaimed Freudian....'It is up to you to be Lacanians if you wish. I am a Freudian'"; and featured the unconscious, the castration complex, the ego, identification, and language as subjective perception. His ideas have had a significant impact on critical theory, literary theory, 20th-century French philosophy, ...
