Psychoanalysis
The Lacanian Approach
Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) profoundly renewed psychoanalysis by performing a 'return to Freud' through the lens of structural linguistics, philosophy and mathematics. His concepts — the unconscious structured like a language, the three registers (Real, Symbolic, Imaginary), objet petit a, the mirror stage and sexuation formulas — transformed analytic practice and exerted considerable influence on humanities, philosophy and contemporary arts.
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