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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="50px" style="text-align:center;" | 1901 - 19341938<BR>| 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>|-| width="50px" style="text-align:center;" | 1936<BR><BR>| width="550px" | He presents his essay on the [[Lacanmirror stage]] 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="50px" style="text-align:center;" | 1938 - 1953<BR><BR>