• Lacanian

    Origin

    From Jacques_Lacan + -ian

    Full definition of Lacanian

    Adjective

    Lacanian

    1. (psychoanalysis) Of, pertaining to, or resembling the psychoanalytical views of Jacques_Lacan (1901-1981).
      • 2009, Wesley C. Swedlow, Against the Personification of Democracy: A Lacanian Critique of Political Subjectivity, Continuum International, p. 11,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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