Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) Jacques Lacan Speaks (1971) dir. Francoise Wolff Conférence à l'Université catholique de Louvain (1972) Psychanalyse I and II (1973) dir. Benoît Jacquot 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". Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 t