Lacan

American  

[luh-kahn, ‑-kahn] / ləˈkɑ̃, ‑ˈkɑn /

noun

1. Jacques, 1901–81, French philosopher and psychoanalyst.

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Lacan British  

/ lakɑ̃ /

noun

1. Jacques (ʒak). 1901–81, French psychoanalyst, who reinterpreted Freud in terms of structural linguistics: an important influence on poststructuralist thought

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Lacan

Nothing sets Mr. Saad off more than postmodernism, “a dreadful idea” that came into vogue in the 1960s thanks to a trio of Frenchman, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

French guards Carla Leite and Leila Lacan are also considered to be second-round draft prospects.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

The characters also pick up Judith Butler, Aimé Césaire and Jacques Lacan — just more light reads on feminism, colonialism and psychoanalysis.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2021

Lacan isn’t just saying a child without a self will gain a self in time.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2021

In olden times they did not lack a term proper to their own language by which they expressed it, as Lacan or Gat for the men, and Dayang for the women.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair