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:[[Lacan]] studies medicine and [[psychiatry]] and completes his [[De la psychose paranoiaque dans ses rapports avec la personalité|doctoral thesis]] on [[paranoia|paranoid]] [[psychosis]]. He presents a paper on the [[mirror stage]] -- his first theoretical contribution to [[psychoanalysis]] -- at a conference of the [[International Psycho-Analytical Association]] ([[IPA]]) in Marienbad.
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:[[Lacan]] studies medicine and [[psychiatry]] and completes his [[De la psychose paranoiaque dans ses rapports avec la personalité|doctoral thesis]] on [[paranoia|paranoid]] [[psychosis]]. He presents a paper on the [[mirror stage]] - his first theoretical contribution to [[psychoanalysis]] - at a conference of the [[International Psycho-Analytical Association]] in Marienbad.
 
;1938 - 1953  
 
;1938 - 1953  
:[[Lacan]] is a member of the ([[IPA]] affiliated) ''[[Société psychanalytique de Paris]]'' ([[SPP]]) until he resigns to join the ''[[Société Française de Psychanalyse]]'' ([[SFP]]).
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:[[Lacan]] is a member of the ''[[Société psychanalytique de Paris]]'' until he resigns to join the ''[[Société Française de Psychanalyse]]''.
 
;1953 - 1963
 
;1953 - 1963
 
:[[Lacan]] begins his first public [[seminar]] (which he will continue to give annually until his death). Thereafter, he rises to become a renowned and controversial figure in the international psychoanalytic community.
 
:[[Lacan]] begins his first public [[seminar]] (which he will continue to give annually until his death). Thereafter, he rises to become a renowned and controversial figure in the international psychoanalytic community.
 
;1963 - 1980
 
;1963 - 1980
:[[Lacan]] leaves the [[SFP]] (after his "expulsion" from the [[IPA]]) and founds his own [[school]], the ''[[École Freudienne de Paris]]'' ([[EFP]]). Following the publication of the [[Écrits]] (1966), there is an explosion of interest in his work in France and abroad.
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:[[Lacan]] leaves the [[SFP]] and founds his own [[school]], the ''[[École Freudienne de Paris]]'' . Following the publication of the [[Écrits]], there is an explosion of interest in his work in France and abroad.
  
 
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Jacques Lacan gives the opening lecture at the International James Joyce Symposiumin in Paris, 1975.

Jacques-Marie Émile Lacan (13 April 19019 September 1981) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.

Lacan is one of the most important – and controversial – figures in the history of psychoanalysis whose influence had spread across a broad range of academic disciplines.


Biography

Click here for a more complete chronology of Jacques Lacan's life.

1901 - 1938
Lacan studies medicine and psychiatry and completes his doctoral thesis on paranoid psychosis. He presents a paper on the mirror stage - his first theoretical contribution to psychoanalysis - at a conference of the International Psycho-Analytical Association in Marienbad.
1938 - 1953
Lacan is a member of the Société psychanalytique de Paris until he resigns to join the Société Française de Psychanalyse.
1953 - 1963
Lacan begins his first public seminar (which he will continue to give annually until his death). Thereafter, he rises to become a renowned and controversial figure in the international psychoanalytic community.
1963 - 1980
Lacan leaves the SFP and founds his own school, the École Freudienne de Paris . Following the publication of the Écrits, there is an explosion of interest in his work in France and abroad.


Bibliography

Click here for a more complete bibliography of Jacques Lacan's work.

Lacan's most important theoretical contributions to psychoanalysis were presented in his seminars.

In 1966, a selection of Lacan's most important papers are published under the title Écrits; fewer than one-third of them are included in the English Écrits: A Selection (1977).

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