![]() Lacan continued to give yearly seminars until the year before his death in 1981. However Lacan's seminars grew in popularity and as his teaching developed from a reading of Freud's text to an elaboration of his own concepts his teaching became more influential. Inventive, radical and adventurous, many still believe Lacan's to be a creative mis-reading of Freud. Through his seminars he offered another interpretation of Freud's work and psychoanalytic theory. Lacan railed against their teaching of Freud, seeing it as an oversimplification of his work and a corruption of psychoanalytic technique reducing it to the status of life management. At the time, the theory and technique of psychoanalysis was facing a complete overhaul at the hands of post-Freudian psychoanalysts, many of whom had emigrated to the United States after the war. Lacan began holding yearly seminars, starting in 1952, re-examining Freud's work. ![]() ![]() After publishing his paper on the Mirror Stage in 1949, for which he is probably best known to the general public, in the early fifties Lacan embarked on a project he called the 'Return to Freud'. Trained as a psychiatrist, he abandoned the profession in favour of psychoanalysis in the early thirties. Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst, 1901 - 1981.
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