Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.
Jacques Lacan Quotes
Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.
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| Birth: | 13th April, 1901 |
| Death: | 9th September, 1981 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst |
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Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was born in Paris, France. He was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud". His ideas had a significant impact on post-structuralism, critical theory, linguistics, 20th-century French philosophy, film theory and clinical psychoanalysis. He wrote several books include: The Language of the Self, My teaching, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, On feminine sexuality, The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, and The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960.
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