Difference between revisions of "Jacques Lacan:Biography"
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[[Lacan]] was raised, grew up, in a comfortable middle-class Catholic family in '''Montparnasse, Paris'''. | [[Lacan]] was raised, grew up, in a comfortable middle-class Catholic family in '''Montparnasse, Paris'''. | ||
| − | He attended a prestigious Catholic school, the '''Collège Stanislas'''.<ref>An ambitious student, he excelled in religious studies and Latin. | + | He attended a prestigious Catholic school, the '''Collège Stanislas'''.<ref>An ambitious student, he excelled in religious studies and Latin.</ref> |
[[Lacan]] went on to study '''medicine'' and specialized in '''psychiatry''' with a particular interest in '''[[psychosis]]'''. | [[Lacan]] went on to study '''medicine'' and specialized in '''psychiatry''' with a particular interest in '''[[psychosis]]'''. | ||
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Revision as of 07:07, 8 September 2006
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.
