people
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: Jacques Lacan

key people in social theory
type: Concept
narrower: Jacques Lacan

psychoanalytic theory
type: Concept

French social theory
type: Concept
narrower: Jacques Lacan

postmodern theory
type: Concept
narrower: Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan
definition: Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (1901–1981) ranks among the most important and original psychoanalytic thinkers. His career spanned over 50 momentous years of French intellectual history (from Surrealism and phenomenology to structuralism and poststructuralism), while his enormously influential seminar combining a careful rereading of Freud with the elaboration of his own conceptual innovations ran nearly 30 years (1953–1980). [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Theory; Lacan, Jacques]
related: psychoanalytic theory
broader: postmodern theory
broader: key people in social theory
broader: French social theory
type: Concept