Definition of "Lacanian"

Lacanian

/ləˈkeɪ.ni.ən/

adjective
comparative more Lacanian, superlative most Lacanian
1. (psychoanalysis) Of, pertaining to, or resembling the psychoanalytical views of Jacques Lacan (1901–1981).
  Quotations
  For him, then, the only truly liberating response is a Lacanian act, an attack on the fundamental fantasy of our current social configuration.
  2009, Wesley C. Swedlow, Against the Personification of Democracy: A Lacanian Critique of Political Subjectivity, Continuum International, page 11