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His internship at [[St-Anne hospital]], starting in [[{{Y}}|1926]], and at the [[Infirmerie Spéciale des Aliénés de la Préfecture de Police]], in [[{{Y}}|1928]], gave [[Lacan]] a particular interest in the study of [[paranoia]].
Later he would say that "My only real master in psychiatry was Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault."
* [[Lacan]] begins [[clinical]] [[training]] at Paris Police Special Infirmary for the Insane ([[L’Infirmerie Spéciale de la Préfecture de Police]]), under the supervision of [[Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault]], whose unconventional style of teaching will exert a lasting influence on [[Lacan]].
<!-- * [[Lacan]] studies under [[Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault]] (1872-1934) at the special infirmary for the insane attached to the Police Préfecture. -->
[[Category:Biography of Jacques Lacan]]
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Having decided to go into medicine, Lacan trained to become a doctor. The formative episode in his medical education was the period he spent as a medical student at the special Infirmary for the Insane of the Police Prefecture during the academic year 1928-9. It was here that he fell under the influence of the eccentric psychiatrist Gaetan Gatian de Clérambault. Clérambault was a student of ‘erotomania’ and a self-proclaimed expert on the mechanics of paranoia who lived alone with the wax figurines which he used to pursue his passion for Arab draping, ‘the art and manner of pleating and folding fabrics, knotting them, causing them to fall voluptuously alongside the body, according to ancestral custom.’[3] As a psychiatrist he adopted a strictly organicist approach to mental illness, resisted psychiatric reform and believed in incarcerating his patients, in whose personality and welfare he showed little interest.
