Lacanianismn.
/laˈkeɪnɪənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ləˈkeɪniəˌnɪz(ə)m/, /ləˈkɑniəˌnɪz(ə)m/ Psychoanalysis.
The theories of Lacan; Lacanian methods or ideas (see Lacanian adj.). Also: adherence to or support for these.
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1977 F. Jameson in Yale French Stud. No. 56. 368 This brief sketch of ‘Lacanianism’ would not be complete without a mention of..the strategy of the analytic situation itself, and in particular the role to be played in it by the analyst's interventions.
1995 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 3 Nov. 12 Pseudo-scientific theories of human nature—Lacanianism, Levi-Straussian structuralism, sociobiology—continue to proliferate.
2014 P. Gratton Speculative Realism viii. 175 If psychoanalysis needs to take up neuroscience,..it's notable that this neuroscience upends his Lacanianism only around the edges.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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