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D-Index
52
Citations
18784
World Ranking
2372
National Ranking
27

Overview

Jacques Lacan was affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their research primarily spanned the fields of Psychology and Arts and Humanities, with significant contributions in subfields such as Clinical Psychology, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Linguistics and Language, and Classics.

Their work focused on various topics including:

  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
  • Psychology and Mental Health
  • Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
  • Psychoanalysis and Social Critique
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Psychological Treatments and Disorders

Jacques Lacan's recent papers included:

  • Some reflections on the ego*, 2023, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
  • CONFERENCIA DICTADA EL MIÉRCOLES 19 DE JUNIO DE 1968, 2021, Psicoanalítica
  • À la lecture du 17 décembre, 2020, La Cause Du Désir
  • Improvisation désir de mort, rêve et réveil, 2020, La Cause Du Désir
  • Séminaire sur La Lettre volée (extrait), 2020, Sigila

The majority of their publications appeared in these venues:

  • La Cause Du Désir
  • The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
  • Psicoanalítica
  • Sigila
  • Kultura - Media - Teologia

Collaborations were frequent with certain scholars, including:

  • Alan Sheridan
  • Malcolm Bowie
  • To Sylvia
  • Michał Rams-Ługowski
  • O Habermasa

Best Publications

  • The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis

    Jacques Lacan

  • Écrits: A Selection

    Jacques Lacan

  • Le Séminaire. Livre I. Les écrits techniques de Freud

    Jacques Lacan;J. Miller

  • Ecrits: The First Complete Edition in English

    Jacques Lacan;Bruce Fink;Héloïse Fink;Russell Grigg

  • Feminine sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the école freudienne

    Jacques Lacan;Juliet Mitchell;Jacqueline Rose

  • The seminar of Jacques Lacan

    Jacques Lacan;Jacques-Alain Miller

  • The language of the self : the function of language in psychoanalysis

    Jacques Lacan;Anthony Wilden

  • Seminar on "The Purloined Letter"

    Jacques Lacan;Jeffrey Mehlman

  • Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse

    Jacques Lacan

  • Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in Hamlet

    Jacques Lacan;Jacques-Alain Miller;James Hulbert

  • Some reflections on the ego.

    Jacques Lacan

  • The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious

    Jacques Lacan;Alan Sheridan;Malcolm Bowie

  • The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience 1

    Jacques Lacan;Alan Sheridan;Malcolm Bowie

  • The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VII

    Jacques Lacan

  • The Language of the Self

    Jacques Lacan

  • The ethics of psychoanalysis, 1959-1960

    Jacques Lacan

  • El estadio del espejo como formador de la función del yo (je) tal como se nos revela en la experiencia psicoanalítica

    Jacques Lacan

  • Speech and language in psychoanalysis

    Jacques Lacan;Anthony Wilden

  • The ego in Freud's theory and in the technique of psychoanalysis, 1954-1955

    Jacques Lacan

  • Le Stade du miroir comme formateur de la fonction du Je

    Jacques Lacan;Rainier Lanselle

  • The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis

    Jacques Lacan;Alan Sheridan;Malcolm Bowie

  • Freud's papers on technique, 1953-1954

    Jacques Lacan

  • The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960 : The Seminar of Jacques Lacan

    Jacques Lacan

  • Art in Theory 1900-1990 : An Anthology of Changing Ideas

    Téodor De Wyzewa;Paul Signac;Paul Gauguin;Sigmund Freud

Frequent Co-Authors

Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud University of Vienna
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty Collège de France
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida École Normale Supérieure
Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes Université Paris Cité

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