Lacanianadj.n.

1966 A. G. Wilden in Amer. Imago Winter 336 Using the Lacanian graphic representation of the signifier (‘S’), the signified (‘s’)..the authors, like Freud, posit a ‘mythical’ origin of the unconscious.

1979 F. Jameson Fables of Aggression ix. 164 The resonance which the phenomenon of ‘second death’ has found in Lacanian psychoanalysis suggests a further line of..interpretation.

1983 E. W. Said World, Text, & Critic x. 228 The invasion of literary discourse by the outré jargons of semiotics, poststructuralism, and Lacanian psychoanalysis has distended the literary critical universe almost beyond recognition.

2009 Church Times 21 Aug. 20/3 Each of the books in the series makes a critical intervention into a succession of ‘classic’ topics..using Lacanian techniques of psychoanalysis.

1967 Amer. Jrnl. Psychotherapy 21 22 In the Institute group..there is a wide range of opinions: Some are primarily interested in a genetic approach; others are becoming interested in ego psychology; still others are Lacanians.

1978 New German Critique Winter 93 When Lacanians associate women with the imaginary but not the symbolic, it's like saying that women are structured from earliest infancy to deal with day-to-day things but they have no ‘drive’ to accede to intellectual life.

1982 J. Culler On Deconstruction (1983) ii. 160 Faithful Lacanians, taxed by the demands of discipleship, have not been the most astute and persuasive readers of Freud.

2013 A. Rosen-Carole Plurality & Perspective in Psychoanal. iii. 233 A Lacanian would likely caution..that immersion in the here and now risks neglecting the dimension of the Symbolic for that of the Imaginary.