biography
pronunciation:
[lakã]
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| lived:
| (1901–81)
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| biography:
| Psychoanalyst and intellectual, born in Paris, France. A critic of modern psychoanalytic revisionism, he first became known in the 1930s with some original articles on Freudian ideas. In 1953 he gave a series of weekly seminars at the University of Paris, collected together in Ecrits (2 vols, 1966, 1971) which greatly influenced French thought. He was director of the École Freudienne de Paris from 1963. |
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