Changes

| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] was born in Paris to a bourgeois Catholic middle-class familyin Paris, and where he was educated at a Jesuit school. He studied medicine and later [[psychiatry]]in the Catholic tradition.

| width="50px" | Early 1930s1901 - 1934<BR><BR>| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] becomes associated with the French surrealist movement.|-| width="50px" | 1934<BR><BR>| width="550px" | studies medicine and later [[Lacanpsychiatry]] finishes . He writes 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>

| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] presents his essay on the [[mirror stage]] -- makes his first major theoretical contribution to [[psychoanalysis]] -- at an IPA conference (Interna­tional Psychoanalytic Congress) in Marienbad.|-| width="50px" | 1938<BR><BR>| width="550px" | with his essay on the [[Lacanmirror stage]] becomes , presented at a member conference of the ''[[Société psychanalytique de Paris]]'' ([[SPP]]), affiliated with the [[International Psycho-Analytical Association]] ([[IPA]]). |-| width="50px" | 1938 to early 1950s<BR>| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] is a distinguished member of the French psychoanalytic establishment. Intellectual contacts with Merleau-Ponty and Levi-Strauss, through the College Philosophique, Parisin Marienbad.

| width="50px" | 1938 - 1953<BR><BR>| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] also resigned from is a member of the ([[IPA]] affiliated) ''[[Société psychanalytique de Paris]]'' ([[SPP]] ) until he resigns to join the newly established '''[[Société Française de Psychanalyse]]''' ([[SFP]]).

| width="50px" | 1953- 1963<BR><BR>

| width="50px" | 1953 to early 1960s<BR>| width="550px" | Continuous development of ideas, par­ticularly those put forward as programme in the Rome Dis­course, involving psychoanalysis and linguistics. |1963 -| width="50px" | 19631980<BR><BR>| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] is finally expelled from leaves the [[IPASFP]], because of unorthodox practice and teaching methods. He chooses to leave (after his "expulsion" from the [[SFPIPA]] ) and found founds his own [[school]], the '''[[École Freudienne de Paris]]''' ([[EFP]]).|-| width="50px" | Following the publication of the [[Écrits]] (1966<BR><BR>| width="550px" | Publication of his Ecrits), following by there is an explosion of his inflience in French society. He soon became a cultural phenomenon.|-| width="50px" | 1968 to 1980<BR>| width="550px" | Increasing interest in his work in France and abroad.|-| width="50px" | 1968<BR><BR>| width="550px" | May revolution. Lacan supported the students' revolt. President of the psychoanalytic department of University of Vincennes.|-| width="50px" | 1980<BR><BR>| 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>

| width="50px" | 1980 - 1981<BR><BR>| 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> However, [[Lacan]] soon dissolves the '''[[École de la Cause freudienne|Cause freudienne]]''' and replaces it with the '''[[École de la Cause freudienne]]'''.