Elisabeth roudinesco jacques lacan biography

Elisabeth Roudinesco teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Widely recognized as the leading authority on Lacan, Élisabeth Roudinesco revisits his life and work: what it was—and what it remains.

In this first published biography of Lacan, historian, psychoanalyst, and critic Roudinesco provides a fascinating portrait of his life and work.

First published in France , Elizabeth Roudinesco's definitive biography, Jacques Lacan, is neither hagiographic nor vindictive; Ms. Roudinesco, a.

Elisabeth Roudinesco gives us a life Balzacian in its sweep: the story of a young man from the provinces determined to leave his family fortune and its old-fashioned values behind; the young doctor in.

In this first published biography of Lacan, historian, psychoanalyst, and critic Roudinesco provides a fascinating portrait of his life and work.!

Jacques Lacan

French psychoanalyst and writer (–)

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For other uses, see Lacan (disambiguation).

Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (,^[3]lə-KAHN;^[4]^[5]French:[ʒakmaʁiemillakɑ̃]; 13 April – 9 September ) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist.

Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud",^[6] Lacan gave yearly seminars in Paris, from to , and published papers that were later collected in the book Écrits. Transcriptions of his seminars, given between and , were also published.^[7] His work made a significant impact on continental philosophy and cultural theory in areas such as post-structuralism, critical theory, feminist theory and film theory, as well as on the practice of psychoanalysis itself.

Lacan took up and discussed the whole range of Freudian concepts, emphasizing the philosophical dimension of Freud's thought and applying concepts derived from structuralism in linguisti