Lacan

[ luh-kahn, ‐kahn ]

/ ləˈkɑ̃, ‐ˈkɑn /

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noun

Jacques, 1901–81, French philosopher and psychoanalyst.

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How to use Lacan in a sentence

Lacan, by the way, once you read Kojève’s exegesis on Hegel, if you do read Lacan, you realize that like a lot of Lacan is just literally ripping off Kojève.
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Barthes, Derrida, Foucault and Lacan were starting to develop the ideas that would revolutionize the humanities.
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British Dictionary definitions for Lacan

Lacan

/ (French lakɑ̃) /

noun

Jacques (ʒak). 1901–81, French psychoanalyst, who reinterpreted Freud in terms of structural linguistics: an important influence on poststructuralist thought

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