Example sentences for: lacan

How can you use “lacan” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Here Roudinesco is rather limitingly censorious, wanting Lacan to pay his debts rather than being amazed by what he could make of what he found in the work of these remarkable people.

  • Lacan's father owned a very successful vinegar distillery; the family were respectable bourgeois Roman Catholics.

  • Lacan's writings are clearly, among other things, the confessions of a self-justifying megalomaniac--unusual in itself, because such people don't tend to explain themselves.

  • As Lacan progresses through psychiatry, World War II (as a doctor in France), surrealism, psychoanalysis, structuralism--Lacan's life was apparently a magnet for everything intellectually interesting happening in France: He was, for example, Picasso's personal doctor--he seems to have had a knack for finding useful fathers.

  • For Lacan, a person was by definition in excess of himself.


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