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In a 2012 interview on ''Veterans Unplugged'', [[Noam Chomsky]] said: "[Q]uite frankly I thought [Lacan] was a total [[charlatan]]. He was just posturing for the television cameras in the way many Paris [[intellectual]]s do. Why this is influential, I haven't the slightest idea. I don't see anything there that should be influential."<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.openculture.com/2013/06/noam_chomsky_slams_zizek_and_lacan_empty_posturing.html|title= Noam Chomsky Slams Žižek and Lacan: Empty 'Posturing'|last= Springer|first= Mike|date= 28 June 2013|website= Open Culture|access-date= 31 August 2018}}</ref>
 
In ''Les Freudiens hérétiques'', the 8th tome of his work ''Contre-histoire de la philosophie'' (''Anti-History of Philosophy''),<ref name=anti>{{cite book |last= Onfray |first=Michel|author-link=Michel Onfray |date=2013 |title=Les Freudiens hérétiques : Contre-histoire de la philosophie|language=French|trans-title=The heretic Freudians: Anti-History of Philosophy|volume= 8th |publisher=[[Éditions Grasset]] |isbn=978-2246802686}}</ref> [[Michel Onfray]] determined thatdescribes Lacan's [[best seller|best-selling]] ''[[Écrits]]'' (''Writings'')<ref name=ecrits>{{cite book |last= Lacan |first=Jacques |author-link=Jacques Lacan|date=2007 |title=Écrits|language=English|trans-title=Writings|translator-first1= Bruce |translator-link=Bruce Fink (psychoanalyst) |translator-last1=Fink|publisher=[[W. W. Norton]] |isbn= ‎ 978-0393329254}}</ref> isas "illegible"<ref name=anti/>{{rp|49}}. Lacan,According into his workOnfray, Onfray asserts,Lacan engages in constant [[word play]]s and, has a taste for the [[formulaic]], while he alsoand deploys "[[Incantation|incantatory]] [[glossolalia]]" and unnecessary [[neologism]]s. He goes as far as stating thatcalls Lacan, whom he too calls a "charlatan," isand a "[[dandy]] figure" who "sinks into [[autism]]," eventually becoming [[senile]].<ref name=anti/>{{rp|49-50}}
 
==Works==