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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: 64. Chapters: Always already, Anselm Haverkamp, Anthony Wilden, Archi-writing, Cahiers pour l'Analyse, Demand (psychoanalysis), Dialogic, Difference (philosophy), Discontinuity (Postmodernism), Dispositif, Fashionable Nonsense, Field (Bourdieu), Foreclosure (psychoanalysis), Four discourses, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Gaze, Gilles Deleuze, Graph of desire, Habitus (sociology), Henry Jenkins, Interdiscourse, Interpellation (philosophy), Intertextuality, Jacques Lacan, James Brusseau, Jean Baudrillard, Jouissance, Juan-David Nasio, Julie Rivkin, Lacanian Ink, Lack (manque), Martin A. Hainz, Matheme, Mirror stage, Name of the Father, Naomi Schor, Objet petit a, Post-anarchism, Post-structural feminism, Post-structural realism, Roy Ascott, Seminars of Jacques Lacan, Sinthome, Stephen David Ross, The Imaginary (psychoanalysis), The Real, The Symbolic, Transtextuality. Excerpt: Jacques Marie Emile Lacan (French: 13 April 1901 - 9 September 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." Lacan's post-structuralist theory rejected the belief that reality can be captured in language. 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, sociology, feminist theory, film theory and clinical psychoanalysis. Lacan was born in Paris, the...
