French psychoanalyst who 'returned to Freud' by reinterpreting psychoanalysis through structural linguistics — arguing that the unconscious is structured like a language, that desire is the desire of the Other, and that the subject is constituted by its entry into language (the symbolic order).
Introduced the concept of the desire of the Other — we desire what the Other desires, and our desire is constituted through language and the symbolic order — making Lacanian psychoanalysis the most direct psychoanalytic parallel to Girard's mimetic desire.
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