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.