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==Biography==
 
==Biography==
 
''[[Chronology|Click here for a more complete chronology of '''Jacques Lacan''''s life]].''
 
''[[Chronology|Click here for a more complete chronology of '''Jacques Lacan''''s life]].''
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<br>Born in Paris, 1901
 
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<br>Medical training in the Paris Medical Faculty. Became Chef de Clinique in 1932.
 
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<br>Doctoral thesis for psychiatric degree - "Paranoid psychosis and its relation to the personality" (1932).
 
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<br>Association with the French surrealist movement, from early 1930s.
 
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<br>'''1934''' Joined the Societe Psychanalytique de Paris.
 
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<br>'''1936''' Presented paper on the 'mirror stage' to the Interna­tional Psychoanalytic Congress in Marienbad.
 
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<br>Until 1952 - Distinguished member of the French psychoanalytic establishment. Intellectual contacts with Merleau-Ponty and Levi-Strauss, through the College Philosophique, Paris.
 
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<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.
 
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<br>1953 to early 1960s - continuous development of ideas, par­ticularly those put forward as programme in the Rome Dis­course, involving psychoanalysis and linguistics.
 
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<br>1963 - Expelled, finally, from International Psychoanalytic Association, because of unorthodox practice and teaching methods.
 
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<br>1964 - Reformed his analytic society, calling it L'Ecole Freudienne de Paris.
 
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<br>1966 - Publication of his Ecrits, following by explosion of his inflience in French society.  He soon became a cultural phenomenon.
 
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<br>1966 to 1980 - Increasing interest in his work in France and abroad.
 
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<br>1968 - May revolution. Lacan supported the students' revolt. President of the psychoanalytic department of University of Vincennes.
 
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<br>1980 - Dissolved the Ecole Freduienne, and formed La Cause Freudienne.
 
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<br>1981 - Death
 
  
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[[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>
 
  
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In 1936, [[Lacan]] presents his piece on the [[mirror stage]] -- his first major theoretical contribution to [[psychoanalysis]] -- at an [[IPA]] conference in Marienbad. In 1938, [[Lacan]] becomes a member of the '''[[Société psychanalytique de Paris]]''' ([[SPP]]), affiliated with the [[International Psycho-Analytical Association]] ([[IPA]]). In 1953, [[Lacan]] begins his first public [[seminar]] (which he will continue to give annually until his death). Thereafter, he rises to become a renowned and controversial figure in the international psychoanalytic community.
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In 1953, [[Lacan]] also resigned from the [[SPP]] to join the newly established '''[[Société Française de Psychanalyse]]''' ([[SFP]]). In 1963, after ten years of continued effort, the [[SFP]] is finally offered [[IPA]] affiliation as a member society -- on the condition that [[Lacan]] be removed from its list of [[training|training analysts]]. In 1963, [[Lacan]] chooses to leave the [[SFP]] and found his own [[school]], the '''[[École Freudienne de Paris]]''' ([[EFP]]). In 1980, [[Lacan]] single-handedly dissolves the [[EFP]] and creates in its stead the '''[[École de la Cause freudienne|Cause freudienne]]'''.<ref>[[Lacan]] states: "It is up to you to be Lacanians if you wish; I am Freudian."</ref> In 1981, the '''[[École de la Cause freudienne|Cause freudienne]]''' is dissolved and the '''[[École de la Cause freudienne]]''' is created to replace it.
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| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] was born in Paris to a bourgeois Catholic family, and was educated at a Jesuit school. He studied medicine and later [[psychiatry]].
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| width="50px" | Early 1930s<BR>
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| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] becomes associated with the French surrealist movement.
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| width="50px" | 1934<BR>
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| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] finishes his doctoral thesis in [[psychiatry]] 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>
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| width="50px" | 1936<BR>
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| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] presents his essay on the [[mirror stage]] -- his first major theoretical contribution to [[psychoanalysis]] -- at an IPA conference (Interna­tional Psychoanalytic Congress) in Marienbad.
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|-
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| width="50px" | 1938<BR>
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| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] becomes a member of the ''[[Société psychanalytique de Paris]]'' ([[SPP]]), affiliated with the [[International Psycho-Analytical Association]] ([[IPA]]).  
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|-
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| width="50px" | 1938 to early 1950s<BR>
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| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] is a distinguished member of the French psychoanalytic establishment. Intellectual contacts with Merleau-Ponty and Levi-Strauss, through the College Philosophique, Paris.  
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|-
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| width="50px" | 1953<BR>
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| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] also resigned from the [[SPP]] to join the newly established '''[[Société Française de Psychanalyse]]''' ([[SFP]]).
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|-
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| width="50px" | 1953<BR>
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| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] begins his first public [[seminar]] (which he will continue to give annually until his death). Thereafter, he rises to become a renowned and controversial figure in the international psychoanalytic community.
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|-
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| width="50px" | 1953 to early 1960s<BR>
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| width="550px" | Continuous development of ideas, par­ticularly those put forward as programme in the Rome Dis­course, involving psychoanalysis and linguistics.
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|-
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| width="50px" | 1963<BR>
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| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] is finally expelled from the [[IPA]], because of unorthodox practice and teaching methods. He chooses to leave the [[SFP]] and found his own [[school]], the '''[[École Freudienne de Paris]]''' ([[EFP]]).
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|-
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| width="50px" | 1966<BR>
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| width="550px" | Publication of his Ecrits, following by explosion of his inflience in French society.  He soon became a cultural phenomenon.
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|-
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| width="50px" | 1968 to 1980<BR>
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| width="550px" | Increasing interest in his work in France and abroad.
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|-
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| width="50px" | 1968<BR>
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| width="550px" | May revolution. Lacan supported the students' revolt. President of the psychoanalytic department of University of Vincennes.
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|-
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| width="50px" | 1980<BR>
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| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] single-handedly dissolves the [[EFP]] and creates in its stead the '''[[École de la Cause freudienne|Cause freudienne]]'''.<ref>[[Lacan]] states: "It is up to you to be Lacanians if you wish; I am Freudian."</ref>
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|-
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| width="50px" | 1981<BR>
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| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] dissolves the '''[[École de la Cause freudienne|Cause freudienne]]''' and replaces it with the '''[[École de la Cause freudienne]]'''.
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| width="50px" | 1981<BR>
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| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] dies.
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==Theory==
 
==Theory==

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Jacques Lacan gives the opening lecture at the International James Joyce Symposiumin in Paris, 1975.

Jacques-Marie Émile Lacan (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.

He is one of the most important -- and most controversial -- figures in the history of psychoanalysis, but is also acknowledged for his far-reaching influence across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences.

1. Biography
2. Theory
3. Practice
4. Bibliography
5. See Also
6. References

Biography

Click here for a more complete chronology of Jacques Lacan's life.


1901
 Lacan was born in Paris to a bourgeois Catholic family, and was educated at a Jesuit school. He studied medicine and later psychiatry.
Early 1930s
 Lacan becomes associated with the French surrealist movement.
1934
 Lacan finishes his doctoral thesis in psychiatry on paranoid psychosis.[1]
1936
 Lacan presents his essay on the mirror stage -- his first major theoretical contribution to psychoanalysis -- at an IPA conference (Interna­tional Psychoanalytic Congress) in Marienbad.
1938
 Lacan becomes a member of the Société psychanalytique de Paris (SPP), affiliated with the International Psycho-Analytical Association (IPA).
1938 to early 1950s
 Lacan is a distinguished member of the French psychoanalytic establishment. Intellectual contacts with Merleau-Ponty and Levi-Strauss, through the College Philosophique, Paris.
1953
 Lacan also resigned from the SPP to join the newly established Société Française de Psychanalyse (SFP).
1953
 Lacan begins his first public seminar (which he will continue to give annually until his death). Thereafter, he rises to become a renowned and controversial figure in the international psychoanalytic community.
1953 to early 1960s
 Continuous development of ideas, par­ticularly those put forward as programme in the Rome Dis­course, involving psychoanalysis and linguistics.
1963
 Lacan is finally expelled from the IPA, because of unorthodox practice and teaching methods. He chooses to leave the SFP and found his own school, the École Freudienne de Paris (EFP).
1966
 Publication of his Ecrits, following by explosion of his inflience in French society. He soon became a cultural phenomenon.
1968 to 1980
 Increasing interest in his work in France and abroad.
1968
 May revolution. Lacan supported the students' revolt. President of the psychoanalytic department of University of Vincennes.
1980
 Lacan single-handedly dissolves the EFP and creates in its stead the Cause freudienne.[2]
1981
 Lacan dissolves the Cause freudienne and replaces it with the École de la Cause freudienne.
1981
 Lacan dies.

Theory

Lacan's work has transformed psychoanalysis, both as a theory and as a practice.

In the 1950s, Lacan emphasized the role of language (and the symbolic order) in psychoanalysis and formulated his most important thesis: that the unconscious is structured like a language.

(This was an extraordinarily innovative period for Lacan and he introduced many of the concepts that would preoccupy him for the rest of his career.)

Lacan drew on a field of study known as Structuralism and on linguistic theory.

Claude Lévi-Strauss's elementary structure of kinship provided the basis for Lacan's conception of the symbolic order and the formation of the unconscious.

Lévi-Strauss's structural anthropology was facilitated by the work of the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) and it was through Lévi-Strauss that Lacan began to read linguistics.

In the process he made radical and far-reaching changes to Saussure's concept of the linguistic sign, completely reversing any conventional understanding of the relationship between the speaking subject and language.

Finally, we will look at the Russian linguist Roman Jakobson's (1896-1982) work on metaphor and metonymy, as this was crucially important for Lacan's conceptualization of desire.

Lacan's conception of the subject as constituted in and through language.

Bibliography

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Click here for a more complete bibliography of Jacques Lacan's work.

Lacan's most important theoretical contributions to psychoanalysis were presented in his seminars.

In 1966, a selection of Lacan's most important papers are published under the title Écrits; fewer than one-third of them are included in the English Écrits: A Selection (1977).


References

  1. ↑ De la psychose paranoiaque dans ses rapports avec la personalité ("On Paranoid Psychosis and Its Relations to the Personality").
  2. ↑ Lacan states: "It is up to you to be Lacanians if you wish; I am Freudian."

Further information about Jacques Lacan can be found below:

See Also

External Links

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