Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 99. Chapters: Structuralism, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Félix Guattari, Slavoj Zizek, Sándor Ferenczi, Rat Man, Defence mechanism, Bracha L. Ettinger, Analysis of subjective logics, Oedipus complex, Narcissistic personality disorder, Anna Freud, Gender inequality, Jean Laplanche, Self psychology, Freud's seduction theory, Néstor Braunstein, Intellectualization, Narcissistic rage and narcissistic injury, Franz Alexander, Donald Meltzer, Psychoanalytic concepts of love and hate, Electra complex, Cassandra, Naomi Schor, Sarah Kofman, Afterwardsness, Luce Irigaray, Mirror stage, Freudo-Marxism, Erna Furman, The Imaginary, Harold Searles, Anthony Wilden, Jean-Claude Milner, Name of the Father, Psychological repression, Pansexuality, The Symbolic, Objet petit a, Postponement of affect, Undoing, The Interpersonal World of the Infant, Relational psychoanalysis, The Seminars of Jacques Lacan, Teresa de Lauretis, Jacques-Alain Miller, The Real, Max Lüscher, Psychoanalysis and Religion, Schizoanalysis, Overdetermination, Steve Abadie-Rosier, Catherine Clément, Lack, Oliver Feltham, Viktor Tausk, Sinthome, Stephen A. Mitchell, Cahiers pour l'Analyse, Jouissance, The Uses of Enchantment, Jacques Hassoun, Intersubjective psychoanalysis, Vanishing mediator, Self-envy, Juan-David Nasio, Discontinuity, Lacanian Ink, Lapsus, Parataxic distortion, Pleasure principle, Heinrich Racker, Primal scene, Reality principle, Resistance, Ruth Mack Brunswick, Culturalist psychoanalysts, Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology, and Religious Belief, Brain lesion theory. Excerpt: Jacques Marie Émile 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, sociology, feminist theory, film theory and clinical psychoanalysis. Lacan was born in Paris, the eldest of Emilie and Alfred Lacan's three children. His father was a successful soap and oils salesman. His mother was ardently Catholic-his younger brother went to a monastery in 1929 and Lacan attended the Jesuit Collège Stanislas. During the early 1920s, Lacan attended right-wing Action Française political meetings and met the founder, Charles Maurras. By the mid-1920s, Lacan had become dissatisfied with religion and quarrelled with his family over it. In 1920, on being rejected as too thin for military service, he entered medical school and, in 1926, specialised in psychiatry at the Sainte-Anne Hospital in Paris. He was especially interested in the philosophies of Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger and attended the seminars about Hegel given by Alexandre Kojève. Sometime in that decade, and until 1938, Lacan sought psychoanalysis by Rudolph Loewenstein. The analysis was lengthy and perhaps not wholly successful: "Loewenstein. often expressed his opinion orally to the pe.