==Biography==
''[[Chronology|Click here for a more complete chronology of '''Jacques Lacan''''s life]].''
* <br>Born in Paris, 1901* <br>Medical training in the Paris Medical Faculty. Became Chef de Clinique in 1932.* <br>Doctoral thesis for psychiatric degree - "Paranoid psychosis and its relation to the personality" (1932). * <br>Association with the French surrealist movement, from early 1930s. * <br>1934 - Joined the Societe Psychanalytique de Paris. * <br>1936 - Presented paper on the 'mirror stage' to the International Psychoanalytic Congress in Marienbad. * <br>Until 1952 - Distinguished member of the French psychoanalytic establishment. Intellectual contacts with Merleau-Ponty and Levi-Strauss, through the College Philosophique, Paris. * <br>1953 - Presentation of the Rome Discourse. Controversy within the Paris psychoanalytic society. Daniel Lagache. followed by Lacan, formed a new Societe Fran~aise de Psychanalyse. Formation of Lacan's Seminar. * <br>1953 to early 1960s - continuous development of ideas, particularly those put forward as programme in the Rome Discourse, involving psychoanalysis and linguistics. * <br>1963 - Expelled, finally, from International Psychoanalytic Association, because of unorthodox practice and teaching methods. * <br>1964 - Reformed his analytic society, calling it L'Ecole Freudienne de Paris. * <br>1966 - Publication of his Ecrits, following by explosion of his inflience in French society. He soon became a cultural phenomenon.* <br>1966 to 1980 - Increasing interest in his work in France and abroad.* <br>1968 - May revolution. Lacan supported the students' revolt. President of the psychoanalytic department of University of Vincennes.* <br>1980 - Dissolved the Ecole Freduienne, and formed La Cause Freudienne.* <br>1981 - Death
[[Lacan]] was born in Paris to a bourgeois Catholic family, and was educated at a Jesuit school. He studied medicine and later [[psychiatry]]. In 1932, [[Lacan]] finishes his doctoral thesis on [[paranoia|paranoid]] [[psychosis]].<ref>''[[On paranoiac psychosis in its relations to the personality|De la psychose paranoiaque dans ses rapports avec la personalité]]'' ("[[On paranoiac psychosis in its relations to the personality|On Paranoid Psychosis and Its Relations to the Personality]]").</ref>
