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Revision as of 11:35, 13 August 2006
Jacques-Marie Émile Lacan (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
A major figure in the history of psychoanalysis, Lacan is mostly acknowledged for his enormous impact across a broad range of fields within the human sciences.
Biography
Click here for a more complete chronology of Jacques Lacan's life.
In 1927, Lacan begins his clincial training in psychiatry at the Sainte-Anne hospital, where he would later teach.
In 1932, Lacan publishes his doctoral disseration (On paranoiac psychosis in its relations to the personality).
In 1931, Lacan becomes increasingly interest in surrealism.
In 1933, Lacan begins to attend Alexandre Kojève's lectures on Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind.
In 1936, Lacan presents his paper on the mirror stage to the fourteenth congress of the IPA at Marienbad on 3 August.
In 1953, Lacan begins his first public seminar in Hôpital Sainte-Anne.
These seminars, which will continue for twenty-seven years, soon become the principal platform for Lacan's teaching.
Works
In 1966, a selection of Lacan's collected papers are published under the title Écrits.
Lacan's most important papers are collected in his Écrits (1966); fewer than one-third of them are included in the English Écrits: A Selection (1977).
Lacan presented his most important theoretical contributions to psychoanalysis through his seminar.
Institutions
Since 1938, Lacan was a member of the Société Parisienne de Psychanalyse (SPP), which was a member body of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA).
In 1953, Lacan resigns from the SPP and joins the Société Française de Psychanalyse (SFP).
In 1963, Lacan resigns from the SFP and founds his own organization, the École Freudienne de Paris (EFP).
In 1980, Lacan dissolves the EFP and creates in its stead the Cause freudienne.
In 1981, the Cause freudienne is dissolved and the École de la Cause freudienne is created to replace it.
Lacan dies in Paris on 9 September, 1981 at the age of eighty.
