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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="550px" | [[Lacan]] becomes associated with the French surrealist movement.

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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="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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| 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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| 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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| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] also resigned from the [[SPP]] to join the newly established '''[[Société Française de Psychanalyse]]''' ([[SFP]]).

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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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| width="550px" | Continuous development of ideas, par­ticularly those put forward as programme in the Rome Dis­course, involving psychoanalysis and linguistics.

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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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| 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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| width="550px" | Increasing interest in his work in France and abroad.

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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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| 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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| 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="550px" | [[Lacan]] dies.

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