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Chapter 16.Jacques Lacan

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    Theoretical Origins | Evolution of Lacan’s Thought, 1959–1962 | Clinical Structures | Position of the Analyst, Transference, and the Work of Analysis | References

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    Jacques Lacan was one of the most influential psychoanalysts in France. He introduced psychoanalysis to France, a country that had been deeply suspicious of the Germanic roots of psychoanalysis. Had it not been for the particular French character of Lacan, who was a psychiatrist and a close friend to many surrealist painters and writers, as well an avid reader of literature and philosophy, psychoanalysis may have never entered into the fabric of French culture in such a profound way.

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