Chronology
1936
- 3 August
- Lacan reads a major paper to the Fourteenth Congress of the International Psycho-Analytical Association in Marienbad:
- 3 August
- Lacan presents a paper on the "mirror stage" to the Fourteenth Congress of the International Psycho-Analytical Association in Marienbad:
1953
- 26-27 September
- The Rome Congress of the SFP is held at the Istituto di Psicologia della Università di Roma.
- 18 November
- Lacan begins his first public seminar on Freud's writings on technique at Sainte-Anne.
1964
- 15 January
- Lacan's Seminar on "The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis" begins at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes. In his opening address, he comapres the IPA's decision to pronounce his teachings anathema to the kherem which excommunicated Spinoza from the synagogue in 1656.
- 21 June
- Lacan founds the École Freudienne de Paris (EFP).
1980
- 9 January
- Lacan unilaterally announces the dissolution of the EFP in a letter addressed to members and published in Le Monde. He asks those who wish to continue working with him to make their intentions known in writings (the term used is un écrit de candidature). He receives over one thousand letters within a week. Lacan is immediately challenged on the grounds that the EFP is an association covered by the terms of the 1901 law; its dissolution requires a two-thirds majority at a specially convened general meeting. That majority is finally obtained during the meeting of 27 September.
1981
- 9 September
- Lacan dies in Paris as a result of kidney failure following an operation to remove an intestinal tumour.