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| width="500px" | [[Lacan]] was born to a middle-class family in Paris, and educated in the Catholic tradition.

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| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] studies medicine and later [[psychiatry]]. He writes 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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| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] makes his first theoretical contribution to [[psychoanalysis]] with his essay on the [[mirror stage]], presented at a conference of the [[International Psycho-Analytical Association]] ([[IPA]]) in Marienbad.

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| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] is a member of the ([[IPA]] affiliated) ''[[Société psychanalytique de Paris]]'' ([[SPP]]) until he resigns to join the ''[[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" | [[Lacan]] leaves the [[SFP]] (after his "expulsion" from the [[IPA]]) and founds his own [[school]], the ''[[École Freudienne de Paris]]'' ([[EFP]]). Following the publication of the [[Écrits]] (1966), there is an explosion of interest in his work in France and abroad.

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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> However, [[Lacan]] soon 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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