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Lacanian en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ləˈkeɪ.ni.ən/

Etymology

From Lacan + -ian, after Jacques Lacan.

Meanings

  1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling the psychoanalytical views of Jacques Lacan (1901–1981).
    • For him, then, the only truly liberating response is a Lacanian act, an attack on the fundamental fantasy of our current social configuration. 2009, Wesley C. Swedlow, Against the Personification of Democracy: A Lacanian Critique of Political Subjectivity, Continuum International, page 11:

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Relateds

Lacanianism · Lacanianist

Translations (4)

fr lacanien (pertaining to the views of Lacan) · fi lacanilainen (pertaining to the views of Lacan) · it lacaniano (pertaining to the views of Lacan) · sv lacaniansk (pertaining to the views of Lacan)

wikipedia: Jacques Lacan