Jacques Lacan

Lacan is most notable for "Aryanizing" the psychoanalytic theories of Freud. He notes that humans form a self by recording and imitating their parents ("mirroring"), including recording (through hearing) the language of their parents, thus their symbolic signifiers and structures—i.e. the psychology of their parents so far as they can pick up on that. Obviously this refers to caretakers of any kind and language and behavior of any kind that reaches a child, but typically the parents have the most influence. The child has a realm of vision that is influenced by the symbolic order of it's mind, which is called the influence of the Symbolic on the Imaginary.
Jacques Marie Émile Lacan; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud".[4] Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan influenced many leading French intellectuals in the 1960s and the 1970s, especially those associated with post-structuralism. His ideas had a significant impact on post-structuralism, critical theory, linguistics, 20th-century French philosophy, film theory, and clinical psychoanalysis.[5]
(/ləˈkɑːn/;[3] French: [ʒak lakɑ̃]
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* Psychoanalysis; Psychology; Psychoanalytic author; 20th Century psychoanalysis
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