Lacanian

//ləˈkeɪ.ni.ən// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling the psychoanalytical views of Jacques Lacan (1901–1981).

    "For him, then, the only truly liberating response is a Lacanian act, an attack on the fundamental fantasy of our current social configuration."

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"Lacanian psychoanalysts used the work "The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa" as an example of feminine jouissance."

Etymology

From Lacan + -ian, after Jacques Lacan.

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