Summary
Dejan Aničić: Introduction to the work of Žak Lakan
The claim that psychoanalysis is an exact science that has its own separate and privileged subject of study - unconsciously, is not convincing to many, and the belief in the effectiveness of psychoanalytic technique and methodology is not widespread. However, when it comes to psychoanalytic theory, there are few who doubt that it has significantly changed the way many people observe themselves and others, that it has had a huge impact on modern art, literature, philosophy, popular culture, etc.
Its victorious campaign and invasion of medical and social sciences, in the second half of the 20th century, was led by Jacques Lacan. This "French Freud" radicalized many of Freud's insights, deviated from some of them according to many, and using structural linguistics, provided psychoanalysis with a powerful ally that made it more intellectually attractive, even managing to remove the sign of bourgeois discipline from it. For the politically radicalized and divided France of the second half of the 20th century, the fact that "his work was consciously offered as a critique of all discourses and all ideologies" certainly contributed to the spread of his influence beyond psychoanalytic circles.
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