LACAN, Jacques-Marie Emile, (1901-1981) French psychoanalyst. Lacan
qualified as a Doctor of Medicine before studying psychiatry under Henri Claude and Gatian
de Clerambaut and worked at a special clinic attached to the Prefecture of Police. Lacan
was not made a full member of the Societe Psychoanalytique de Paris until 1938 and after
disputes with the Societe, led a breakaway faction that eventually became the Ecole
Freudienne de Paris in 1964. Lacan's seminars at the Ecole Normale Superieure which began
in 1953 were a focal point for the French intelligentsia and are published as Ecrits.
The seminars for 1964 were published in English as The Four Fundamental Concepts of
Psychoanalysis (1977).
Analysts and therapists
Post-structuralist and postmodernists