The direction created by the largest French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the founder of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and the French Freudian School, is usually called structural psychoanalysis.
The direction created by the largest French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the founder of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and the French Freudian School, is usually called structural psychoanalysis. Lacan’s innovation lies in the fact that he applied the principles of structural linguistics to psychoanalysis and believed that the unconscious itself is «structured like a language.» From 1953 to 1980, Lacan led famous seminars in Paris that had a significant impact on the development of psychoanalysis. The current book includes lectures given by the scientist in 1958-1959.
Gnosis, Logos, 340 p.