Jacques Lacan
Jacques-Marie Émile Lacan (13 April 1901 – 9 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.
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Biography
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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 (IPA) in Marienbad. |
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). |
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 (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. |
1980 - 1981 |
Lacan single-handedly dissolves the EFP and creates in its stead the Cause freudienne.
However, Lacan soon dissolves the Cause freudienne and replaces it with the École de la Cause freudienne. |
Bibliography
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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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