# Jacques Lacan

French psychoanalyst who reformulated Freud through structuralist linguistics, logic, and topology, radically transforming psychoanalytic theory and practice.

**Lived:** 1901–1981 (b. Paris)
**Nationality:** French
**Training:** Psychiatry under Henri Claude, Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault; medical degree University of Paris
**Affiliation:** Psychoanalysis; structuralism; post-structuralism; continental philosophy

## Key works

- *On Paranoiac Psychosis in its Relations to the Personality* (1932)
- *Écrits* (1966)
- *The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VIII: Transference* (1991)
- *The Seminars (Transcriptions 1953–1980)*