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==Biography==
''[[Chronology|Click here for a more complete chronology of '''Jacques Lacan''''s life]].''
Born in Paris of a bourgeois Catholic family in 1901,
[[Lacan]] took up the study of medicine and pursues [[training|clinical training]] in [[psychiatry]] in the 1920s.
In the 1930s, [[Lacan]] earned a medical degree in [[psychiatry]], publishing a thesis on [[paranoia|paranoid aggressivity]] as a strategy of self-punishment]].
