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=====1Family=====
Born on [[{{Y}}|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]].
=====2Education=====
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]].
=====The Surrealist Movement=====
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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]].
=====Beginnings in Psychiatry=====
His internship at [[St-Anne hospital]], starting in [[{{Y}}|1926]], and at the Infirmerie Spéciale des Aliénés de la Préfecture de Police]], in [{{Y}}|1928]], gave [[Lacan]] a particular interest in the study of [[paranoia]].
Later he would say that "My only real master in psychiatry was Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault."
[[Lacan]] singled out his concept of "[[mental automatism]]". This brought together many seemingly disparate phnomena of [[madness]] under the common motif of ''something being imposed from 'outside'.'': the echo of thoughts or a commentary on one's actions, for example.
The form of a particular [[psychosis]] would then be determined by how one ''[[signification|made sense]]'' of these elements which lacked an initial content. [[Lacan]] would say that this concept was the closest that contemporary [[France|French]] [[psychiatry]] got to a [[structural analysis]], with its emphasis on the imposition of formal elements beyond the "[[conscious]]" [[control]] of the [[subject]].
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