What is Lacanian philosophy?

Lacanian perspectives contend that the world of language, the Symbolic, structures the human mind, and stress the importance of desire, which is conceived of as endless and impossible to satisfy. Contemporary Lacanianism is characterised by a broad range of thought and extensive debate between Lacanians.

Is Lacan still relevant today?

In some parts of the world Lacanian psychoanalysis is still very much valued and practiced (South America, France, Spain); in other parts of the world the use of LP is on the decline (Northern Europe, North America).

What is the symbolic for Lacan?

SYMBOLIC ORDER (Lacan): The social world of linguistic communication, intersubjective relations, knowledge of ideological conventions, and the acceptance of the law (also called the “big Other”). Once a child enters into language and accepts the rules and dictates of society, it is able to deal with others.

When should psychoanalysis end?

Introduction. A good starting point for discussing termination is Psychoanalysis Terminable and Interminable (Freud 1937), written two years before the author’s death at the age of 82.

Was Lacan a philosopher?

Lacan simply did not begin his career as a philosopher; he was a medical practitioner, and it may well be said that his very early work— where the notion of the imaginary predominates—was not chie²y in²uenced by philosophy, its conceptual tropes and oppositional structures.

Who is Jacques Lacan?

Jacques Lacan. Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (April 13, 1901 to September 9, 1981) was a major figure in Parisian intellectual life for much of the twentieth century.

What is the best book on Lacan’s theory?

Nasio, Juan-David, 1998, Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan [trans. David Pettigrew and François Raffoul], Albany: State University of New York Press. Nobus, Dany, 2000, Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis, New York: Routledge.

Why does Lacan talk about philosophy as a discourse?

If Lacan talks about philosophy it is because, to a certain extent, he acknowledges its status as a discourse, its status as a specificdiscourse. Lacan traces the discourse of philosophy (in brief, that of ontology) back to the discourse of the master.