The book collects articles and lectures published from 1936 to 1966.

After its first publication in 1966, the book brought Lacan international attention and had a strong influence on modern intellectual life.

< p>To this day, Lacan's radical, brilliant and complex ideas continue to have a huge influence on everything from film theory to art history and literary criticism. Ecrits is an indispensable resource for those seeking to understand this extraordinary thinker and his influence on modern thought and culture.

Jacques Lacan reshaped, rethought Freudian psychoanalysis, drawing on psychology, linguistics, philosophy and anthropology, and developed new concepts: “real”, “imaginary” and “symbolic”.

Jacques Lacan is one of the most famous psychoanalysts of the twentieth century.