Introduction
Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) and his followers developed Freud’s work on the unconscious and sexuality and continue the early psychoanalytic concern with social and personal questioning of self and society. There is a particular focus on language and its limits in Lacan’s psychoanalysis and a particular conception of symptoms, diagnosis, and the questions that someone asks of their distress when they come to psychoanalysis. There are also specific arguments that Lacan elaborated concerning the direction of the treatment, transference, and interpretation and the position of the analyst, and the importance that Lacanians give to the notion of “difference” at the end of the treatment has consequences for the way that they practice psychoanalysis. These ideas are congruent with “critical psychology” in some respects but are problematic in others.
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Lacanian psychoanalysis is a theory and practice of therapeutic treatment that then also provides coordinates for thinking...
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Parker, I., Vanheule, S. (2014). Lacanian Psychoanalysis. In: Teo, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5583-7_165
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