The best of my area

Hello my friends, in this time I will write about a person who, I think, is the best in the Psychology, especially in all themes of the Psychoanalysis. His name is Jacques Lacan.

Lacan was born in Paris in 1901. He studied medicine and between 1927 and 1931 he got the psychiatry’s title. He is a very famous psychoanalyst and his work brings back again all Freud’s importance, because some post freudanian authors changed the course of the original line. However, Lacan returns to the original Freud’s approach with linguistics elements. He dies in 1981.

I like the Lacan's idea, because he has a big capacity of abstraction and analysis of the human development, but he used a form totally opposite to the behaviourism of Skinner and Watson. Lacan took all the psychoanalyst and he gave a structure, a way innovative of understanding that Freud could not give.

My dissertation, in this subject, was based in one of his postulates, The Mirror Phase, when the child enter to the imaginary registry. The last year, in English II, I talked about Lacan too, but other theme: the Edipus Complex, basically, in this complex, Lacan explained how the child abandon the imaginary registry and he enter to the simbolic registry, the culture. However, the Lacan's work is very broad and very difficult for understand, but that does more interesting.

In internet, specifically, in YouTube, I found some videos about Lacan, when he taught in different universities, unfortunately I don't understand what he said because this videos are very short, only a few seconds. This are the videos:

That's all for this week... see you in class!!!



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