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Adjective

Lacanian ‎(comparative more Lacanian, superlative most 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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• Lacanianism

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