Jacques Lacan:Biography
Education
Lacan was raised, grew up, in a comfortable middle-class Catholic family in Montparnasse, Paris.
He attended a prestigious Catholic school, the Collège Stanislas.[1]
Lacan went on to study medicine and specialized in psychiatry' with a particular interest in psychosis.
Encounters
In 1930, Lacan read an article in a Surrealist journal by a little-known painter Salvador Dali (1904-89) on 'Paranoia'.
Second, in 1931 he began reading Freud.
These two encounters were to propel Lacan on a lifelong engagement with - and transformation of - the field of psychoanalysis.
