Lacanian
1
9.9
- adjective
- /ləˈkɑːniən/
- Literature
- The film's narrative structure illustrates a Lacanian understanding of identity and subjectivity.
- Lacanian psychoanalysis
- Lacanian theory
- Lacanian formula
Examples
-
In other words, the Lacanian Real is functional rather than existential.
Academic text (1997) -
Many psychologists analyze dreams from a Lacanian perspective to explore unconscious desires.
-
"Desire, in the Lacanian sense of a lack
Academic text (2000) -
Because they understand the Lacanian representation.
Academic text (2005) -
The wives, who are corporeal, die; but the ring, which is real in the Lacanian sense, remains very much alive.
Academic text (1995) -
The Lacanian view of Moulsworth's marriages also indicates that she has a stable and well-developed ego.
Fiction book (1996) -
As Bruce Fink, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, points out, the paternal metaphor will have occurred by a certain age (about six years old).
Academic text (2016) -
To my left, Gretchen, a deconstructionist, wrote about Jane Austen; to my right, Schuyler, a Lacanian feminist, toiled away on Melanie Klein.
Fiction book (2000) -
In her thesis, she applied Lacanian theory to examine the relationship between language and desire.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Lacanian = Lacan (semi-transparent) = Lacan + ian
Formed by adding the productive suffix '-ian' to the proper name 'Lacan'; the relation 'relating to Lacan' is clear in form but the term is specialized and depends on knowledge of the person.
Etymology
Lacanian comes from the name Lacan, Jacques Lacan a French thinker about the mind, and the ending -ian, which means 'belonging to' or 'related to', like Newtonian. So Lacanian describes ideas or interpretations that come from Lacan's theories.