Lacan: The Essential Writings Glossary

by Jacques Lacan

Lacan: The Essential Writings Glossary

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Dormancy

Being temporarily inactive

Accreditation

Recognizing someone's capability or status

Expounded

Recounted, presented

Surreal

Unreal, fantastical

Psychoanalysis

A theory originally traced to Sigmund Freud which tells that every person has unconscious dream, memories desires etc.

Paranoid

A person who exhibits unwarranted jealousy

Meticulous

Studious, thorough, diligent

Erotomania

Mental state in which someone thinks that other person is in love but he or she is not.

Narcissistic

Wrapped up in self, self admiring

Ostensible

Seeming, apparent

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