Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan

male, deceased (1981)
Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan (April 13, 1901 - September 9, 1981) was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor. Lacan’s ‘return to the meani...
Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant

male, deceased (1804)
Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg in East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). He is regarded as one of the most influential t...
Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault

male, deceased (1984)
Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 - June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher and historian. He held a chair at the Collège de France, giving it the t...
Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir

female, deceased (1986)
Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986) was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics,...
Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich

male, deceased (1957)
Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Reich was a respected analyst for much of his life, focusing on character...
Judith Butler

Judith Butler

female, 53 years old
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American post-structuralist philosopher who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory,...
Luce Irigaray

Luce Irigaray

female, 79 years old
Luce Irigaray (born 1930 Belgium) is a French feminist and psychoanalytic and cultural theorist. She is best known for her works "Speculum of the...
Marquis de Sade

Marquis de Sade

male, deceased (1814)
Donatien Alphonse-François de Sade (pronounced) was a French aristocrat and writer of philosophy-laden and often violent pornography. He was a p...
Julia Kristeva

Julia Kristeva

female, 68 years old
Julia Kristeva (born 24 June 1941) is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, psychoanalyst, feminist, and, most recently, novelist, who...
Roland Barthes

Roland Barthes

male, deceased (1980)
Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 - March 25, 1980) (pronounced) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and...