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).
1981
- 9 September
- Lacan dies in Paris as a result of kidney failure following an operation to remove an intestinal tumour.