Lacanian
Adjective
Meaning
Lacanian (comparative more Lacanian, superlative most Lacanian)
(psychoanalysis) Of, pertaining to, or resembling the psychoanalytical views of Jacques Lacan (1901-1981).
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Examples
The Bunny brand is a Lacanian play of signs bounding blithely away from any signifiable sexuality.
Cornélius Castoriadis, in Roudinesco (1997) p. 386 Irrespective of the theoretical merits of breaking up patients' expectations, it was clear that "the Lacanian analyst never wants to 'shake up' the routine by keeping them for more rather than less time".
Evans, Dylan, An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, p. 162. Lacan returned to the theme of the Real in 1953 and continued to develop it until his death.
Ian Ousby ed., The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (Cambridge 1995) p. 767 Within this Lacanian emphasis, 'Freud's theories become a place from which to raise questions of interpretation, rhetoric, style, and figuration'.
From a psychoanalytical perspective, after the Lacanian notion of "the Real", Slavoj Žižek offered new aspects of "the gaze " extensively used in contemporary film analysis.
However, there are Lacanian psychoanalytic societies in both North America and the United Kingdom that carry on his work.