Jacques Lacan facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Jacques Lacan
Born	(1901-04-13)13 April 1901 Paris, France
Died	9 September 1981(1981-09-09) (aged 80) Paris, France
Education	Collège Stanislas (1907–1918) University of Paris (certificate of specialist in legal medicine, 1931; M.D., 1932)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Psychoanalysis Structuralism Post-structuralism
Institutions	University of Paris VIII
Main interests	Psychoanalysis
Notable ideas	Mirror phase The Real The Symbolic The Imaginary Graph of desire Split subject Objet petit a
Influences Sigmund Freud Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault G.W.F. Hegel Alexandre Kojève Claude Lévi-Strauss Salvador Dali Georges Bataille Marquis de Sade Jean Paul Sartre Immanuel Kant Aristotle Karl Marx
Influenced Alain Badiou, Louis Althusser, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Jacques-Alain Miller, Slavoj Žižek, Éric Laurent, Elisabeth Roudinesco, Mari Ruti, Lacanian movement, Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis

Jacques Lacan (Paris, 13 April 1901 – Paris, 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. He added new ideas to psychoanalysis and philosophy. Some of these ideas are the mirror stage, the three orders of subjectivity (the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real), the "Object little a" and "jouissance". He talked every year at seminars from 1953 to 1981. In the 1960s and 1970s, he influenced many French intellectuals. He also talked about going back to the ideas of Sigmund Freud. He called himself a Freudian (follower of Freud).

See also

• In Spanish: Jacques Lacan