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'''Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan''' (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was a French [[psychoanalyst]] and [[psychiatrist]].
'''Slavoj Žižek''' (born March 21His work, like most psychoanalytic work, owes a heavy, explicit debt to [[Sigmund Freud]], 1949) is but also drew from a Slovenian sociologistnumber of other fields, philosopher and cultural critic. He was born in Ljubljanaincluding [[linguistics]], Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia)[[philosophy]], and received a D.A. in Philosophy in Ljubljana and studied Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris. In 1990 he was a candidate with the party "Liberal Democracy of Slovenia" for president of the Republic of Slovenia[[mathematics]].
'''This interdisciplinary focus in his work has led him to be an important figure in many fields beyond [[Slavoj Žižek|(continued...)psychoanalysis]] - particularly within [[critical theory]]'''.
Recently featured: [[Slavoj Žižek]] His central idea was that the human subject is a creation of its use of language. From this understanding Lacan develops his study of psychoanalysis and his treatment strategies. His work, while controversial, continues to influence the development of psychoanalysis worldwide. In France and elsewhere various "schools" of Lacanian thought have emerged.
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