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'''Jacques Marie Émile Lacan''' (1901 – 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. His books and ideas had a significant impact on critical theory, literary theory, philosophy, sociology, feminist theory, film theory and clinical psychoanalysis.
 
'''Jacques Marie Émile Lacan''' (1901 – 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. His books and ideas had a significant impact on critical theory, literary theory, philosophy, sociology, feminist theory, film theory and clinical psychoanalysis.
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Although Ernest Lacan never practiced photography, he was a central voice in the international photographic community during the second half of the 19th century. As editor and writer for the two leading French photography journals, ''La Lumière'' [''The Light''] and ''Le Moniteur de la Photographie'' [''The Monitor of Photography''], from 1851 to 1879 Lacan helped shape the terms of the debate around photographic practice and theory as he strove to articulate photography’s cultural significance [http://19th-century-photography.blogspot.ro/2010/12/l.html].
  
 
==Literature==
 
==Literature==

Revision as of 13:09, 3 April 2014

Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (1901 – 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. His books and ideas had a significant impact on critical theory, literary theory, philosophy, sociology, feminist theory, film theory and clinical psychoanalysis.

Although Ernest Lacan never practiced photography, he was a central voice in the international photographic community during the second half of the 19th century. As editor and writer for the two leading French photography journals, La Lumière [The Light] and Le Moniteur de la Photographie [The Monitor of Photography], from 1851 to 1879 Lacan helped shape the terms of the debate around photographic practice and theory as he strove to articulate photography’s cultural significance [1].

Literature

Books by Lacan
On Lacan

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