From the April 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe now. In more sceptical quarters of the Anglosphere, the work of the psychoanalyst and philosopher Jacques Lacan (1901–81) has long been considered synonymous with the worst excesses of post-structuralist obfuscation. Yet more than 40 years after his death, Lacan continues to cast a long shadow over intellectual life in his native France…
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