Lacan

[ luh-kahn, ‑-kahn ]

noun

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

Lacan

/ lakɑ̃ /

noun

1. LacanJacques19011981MFrenchMEDICINE: psychoanalystWRITING: structuralist Jacques (ʒak). 1901–81, French psychoanalyst, who reinterpreted Freud in terms of structural linguistics: an important influence on poststructuralist thought

Example Sentences

A pair of French guards, Carla Leite and Leila Lacan, went next to Dallas and Connecticut, respectively.

From Seattle Times

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

From Seattle Times

Mari Ruti, who in wide-ranging writings on gender and sexuality found food for thought not only in psychoanalysts like Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan but also in online pornography, self-help books and a Julia Roberts movie, died on June 8 at a hospital near her home in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia.

From New York Times

“You shouldn’t need four years of study of Lacan and Deleuze and Adorno and whoever to understand art,” Kline told me.

From New York Times

It borrows from psychoanalysis — Jacques Lacan’s theories about language and speech — and has an insistent materiality, despite being laden with text.

From New York Times