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An outstanding pupil, he excelled in [[religion|religious studies]] and [[Latin]]. As a teenager, [[Jacques Lacan]] developed a passion for [[philosophy]], adorning the walls of his bedroom with a plan of the [[structure]] of [[Spinoza]]'s ''[[Ethics]]'', a text which would always remain dear to him and which he would quote at the start of his [[doctoral dissertation]] in [[medicine]]. | An outstanding pupil, he excelled in [[religion|religious studies]] and [[Latin]]. As a teenager, [[Jacques Lacan]] developed a passion for [[philosophy]], adorning the walls of his bedroom with a plan of the [[structure]] of [[Spinoza]]'s ''[[Ethics]]'', a text which would always remain dear to him and which he would quote at the start of his [[doctoral dissertation]] in [[medicine]]. | ||
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| + | [[Lacan]] took up the study of [[medicine]] in [[{{Y}}|1920]] and specialized in [[psychiatry]] from [[{{Y}}|1926]]. During this period, he was active in the busy [[Paris]]ian world of the writers, artists and intellectuals who made up the [[surrealism|surrealist movement]]. | ||
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Revision as of 10:51, 15 November 2006
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Born on 13 April 1901, Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was the first child of Charles Marie Alfred Lacan and Émilie Philippine Marie Baudry. Alfred Lacan was the Paris sales representative of a large provincial firm. The family lived in comfortable conditions in the Boulevard du Beaumarchais before moving to the Montparnasse area where Jacques entered the prestigious Catholic school, the Collège Stanislas.
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An outstanding pupil, he excelled in religious studies and Latin. As a teenager, Jacques Lacan developed a passion for philosophy, adorning the walls of his bedroom with a plan of the structure of Spinoza's Ethics, a text which would always remain dear to him and which he would quote at the start of his doctoral dissertation in medicine.
The Surrealist Movement
Lacan took up the study of medicine in 1920 and specialized in psychiatry from 1926. During this period, he was active in the busy Parisian world of the writers, artists and intellectuals who made up the surrealist movement.
