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an encyclopedia of Lacanian psychoanalysis

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About No Subject No Subject is a scholarly encyclopedia devoted to **Lacanian psychoanalysis**, **Freudian theory**, and related intellectual traditions. It is designed for readers seeking **conceptual clarity**, **historical context**, and **rigorous reference material**—from first-time readers to advanced researchers.

How to Use This Encyclopedia Begin with curated **entry points** below, or browse concepts directly. Each article is encyclopedic, cross-linked, and grounded in primary sources. Depth is preserved without sacrificing navigability.

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Jacques Lacan Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (1901 - 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud". Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan influenced many leading French intellectuals in the 1960s and the 1970s, especially those associated with post-structuralism. His ideas had a significant impact on post-structuralism, critical theory, linguistics, 20th-century French philosophy, film theory, and clinical psychoanalysis.

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A — Act • Acting out • Adaptation • Aggressivity • Algebra • Alienation • Analysand • Anxiety • Autonomous ego • More

B — Bar • Beautiful soul • Being • Bejahung • Biology • Borromean knot • More

C — Castration complex • Cogito • Communication • Complex • Condensation • Consciousness • Counterpart • Countertransference • More

D — das Ding • Death drive • Demand • Desire • Desire of the analyst • Development • Discourse • Displacement • Drive • Dual relation • More

E — Ego • Ego-ideal • Ego-psychology • End of analysis • Enunciation • Ethics • Existence • Extimacy • More

F — Fantasy • Father • Fetishism • Foreclosure • Formation • Fragmented body • More

G — Gaze • Graph of desire • More

H — Helplessness • Hysteria • More

I — Id • Ideal-ego • Identification • Imaginary • International Psycho-Analytical Association • Interpretation • Intersubjectivity • More

J — Jouissance • More

K — Kleinian psychoanalysis • Knowledge • More

L — Lack • Language • Law • Letter • Libido • Linguistics • Love • More

M — Master • Matheme • Metalanguage • Metonymy • Mirror Stage • Moebius strip • Mother • Méconnaissance • More

N — Name-of-the-Father • Narcissism • Nature • Need • Negation • Neurosis • More

O — Objet petit a • Obsessional neurosis • Oedipus complex • Order • Other • More

P — Paranoia • Passage to the act • Phallus • Philosophy • Phobia • Pleasure principle • Point de capiton • Psychoanalysis • Psychology • Psychosis • More

R — Real • Recollection • Register • Regression • Religion • Repetition • Repression • Resistance • More

S — Seminar • Sexual Difference • Sexual Relationship • Sign • Signification • Signifier • Signifying chain • Specular Image • Speech • Split • Subject • Subject supposed to know • Sublimation • Superego • Symbolic • Symptom • More

T — Thing • Topology • Treatment • Truth • More

U — Unconscious • More

W — Woman • More

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