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{{JL}}[[Image:LacanJacques-lacan-TV4.gifjpg|thumb|300px250px|right]]<!-- {{Infobox_Scientist| name = Jacques Lacan| image = Lacan3.jpg| image_width = 200px| caption = | birth_date = [[13 April]] [[1901]]| birth_place = [[Paris]], [[France]]| death_date = [[9 September]] [[1981]]| death_place = [[Paris]], [[France]]| residence = | citizenship = France| nationality = | ethnicity = | field = [[Psychology]]| work_institution = | alma_mater = | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = | author_abbreviation_bot = | author_abbreviation_zoo = | prizes = | religion = | footnotes = }}-->[[Jacques Lacan|Jacques-Marie Émile Lacan]] ([[Jacques Lacan:Chronology#1901|13 April 1901]] – [[Jacques Lacan:Chronology#1981|9 September 1981]]) was a [[French]] [[psychoanalyst]] and [[psychiatrist]] who made prominent contributions to psychoanalysis, [[philosophy]], and [[literary]] [[theory]]. Giving yearly [[seminars]] in Paris from 1953 to 1981, Lacan influenced France's intellectuals in the 1960s and the 1970s, especially the post-[[structuralist]] [[philosophers]]. His interdisciplinary [[work]] is [[Freudian]], featuring the [[unconscious]], the [[castration]] [[complex]], the ego, [[identification]], and [[language]] as [[subjective]] [[perception]]. His [[ideas]] have had a significant impact on [[critical theory]], [[literary theory]], twentieth-century French philosophy, [[sociology]], [[feminist]] theory and [[clinical]] psychoanalysis.

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<blockquote>''[[Chronology|Click here]] for a more complete chronology of [['''Jacques Lacan]]''''s life]].''</blockquote>;1901Originally :13 April, Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan is [[Lacanborn]] in Paris, to a [[family]] of solid [[Catholic]] [[tradition]] . He is educated at the collège Stanislas, a Jesuit school. After his ''baccalauréat'' he studies [[medicine ]] and later [[psychiatry]].;1927In 1927, : Starts clinical [[Lacan]] begins his clincial training in [[psychiatry]] , works at the [[Sainte-Anne 's hospital]], . A year later he works in the Special Infirmary Service where he would later teach. In 1931, [[LacanClérambault]] becomes increasingly interest in had a [[surrealismpractice]] and meets Salvador Dalí.;1932In 1932, :Awarded doctorate for his [[Lacanthesis]] publishes his doctoral disseration (, ''[[On paranoiac psychosis in its relations to the personalityDe la psychose paranoïaque dans ses rapports avec la personnalité]]'').;1933In 1933:The richness of his thesis, especially the [[analysis]] of the [[case]] of [[Aimée]], makes him famous with the [[LacanSurrealist]] begins to attend s. BEtween this year and 1939 he takes [[Alexandre Kojève]]'s lectures on course at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes [[Etudes]], an "Introduction to the [[reading]] of [[Hegel]]'s .";1934:He [[marries]] [[Marie-Louise]] Blondon, [[mother]] of [[Caroline]], [[Thibaut]] and [[Sibylle]]. While in analysis with Rudolph [[Loewenstein]], Lacan becomes a member of the ''[[Hegel[Société Psychanalytique de Paris|Phenomenology of MindSociété psychanalytique de Paris]]]]''([[Société psychanalytique de Paris|SPP]]).;1940===The Mirror Stage===:Works at Val-de-Grâce, the military hospital in Paris. During the [[German]] Occupation, he does not take part in any [[official]] [[activity]].;1946:In 19361946, the [[SPP]] resumes its activities and Lacan, with Nacht and Lagache, takes charge of training [[analyses]] and supervisory [[control]] and plays an important [[theoretical]] presents his paper on the and institutional [[role]].;1951:The [[mirror stageSPP]] begins to raise the fourteenth congress issue of the Lacan's [[IPAshort sessions]] at Marienbad on 3 August, as opposed to the standard analytical hour.;1953===The Seminar===:In 1953January Lacan is elected President of the [[SPP]]. Six months later he resigns to join the ''[[Société Française de Psychanalyse]]'' ([[SFP]]) with D. Lagache, F. Dolto, J. Favez-Boutonier among [[others]]. In Rome, Lacandelivers his report, "''[[Fonction et champ de la parole et du langage]]''". On 17 July he marries [[Sylvia]] Maklès, mother of [[Judith]] begins . That autumn Lacan starts his first public [[seminar]] in s at the [[Hôpital Hôspital Sainte-Anne]]. ;1954These :The first ten [[seminar]]selaborate fundamental notions [[about]] [[psychoanalytic]] [[technique]], the essential [[concepts]] of [[psychoanalysis]], which will continue for twenty-seven yearsand its [[ethics]]. During this period Lacan writes, on the basis of his seminars, conferences and addresses in colloquia, soon become the principal platform for major [[texts]] that are found in ''[[LacanEcrits]]'s teaching' in 1966.;1956==Works== In 1966, a selection :Celebrities are attracted to his seminars ([[Jean Hyppolite]]'s analysis of [[LacanFreud]]'s collected papers are published under the title article on ''Dé[[Écritsnégation]]'', given during the first seminar, is a well-known example). [[Alexandre Koyré]], Claude Lévi-[[Strauss]], Maurice [[Merleau-Ponty]], and ethnologist Marcel Griaule, Emile Benveniste among others attend his courses.;1962:[[LacanSFP]] members [[want]] to be recognized by the [[International Psycho-Analytical Association]] ([[IPA]]). The [[IPA]]issues an ultimatum: Lacan's most important papers are collected [[name]] must be crossed off the [[list]] of didacticians.;1963:Two weeks before the expiry of the deadline set by the IPA (31 October), the committee of didacticians of the [[SFP]] gives up its courageous stand of 1962 and pronounces in his favour of the ban: Lacan is no longer one of the didacticians.;1964:Lacanians [[form]] a Study Group on Psychoanalysis organized by Jean Clavreul, until Lacan official founds the ''[[ÉcritsEcole Française de Psychanalyse]]'' (1966); fewer than one-third of them are included in , which soon becomes the English ''[[Écrits: A SelectionEcole Freudienne de Paris]]'' (1977[[EFP]]). With [[Lévi-Strauss]] and [[Althusser]]'s support, he is appointed lecturer at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes.;1965:In January Lacan begins his new seminar on "[[LacanThe Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis]] presented his most important theoretical contributions to " at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. His audience is made up of [[psychoanalysisanalysts]] through his and young students in philosophy at the ENS, notably [[seminarJacques-Alain Miller]].;1966:[[Ecrits]], Paris: Seuil 1966. The book draws considerable attention to the [[EFP]], extending far beyond the intelligentsia.==Institutional Organizations==;1967 In 1934, :Lacan presents the ''[[Acte]] de Fondation'' of the [[LacanEFP]] begins his ; its novelty lies in the procedure of ''[[analysispasse]] with ''. The ''[[Rudolph Loewensteinpasse]]'' consists of testifying, in front of two ''passeurs'', to one's [[experience]] as an analysand and joins especially to the crucial [[moment]] of passage from the [[Société Psychoanalytique de Parisposition]] of [[analysand]] to that of [[analyst]]. The ''passeurs'' are chosen by their [[analyst]] s (generally analysts of the EFP) and should be at the same [[stage]] in their [[SPPanalytic]]) experience as the ''passant''. They listen to him and then, in turn, they testify to what they have heard in front of a candidate membercommittee for approval composed of the director, Lacan, and of some AE, ''[[analyste]] de l'école'' (analyst of the school). In 1938 This committee's function is to select the analysts of the School and to elaborate, after the selecting [[Lacanprocess]] becomes , a full member 'work of the [[SPPdoctrine]]'.;1969Since 1938, :The issue of the ''passe'' keeps invading the EFP's [[Lacanlife]] was . "''Le quatrième groupe''" is formed around those who resign from the EFP disputing over Lacan's methods for the analysts' training and accreditation. Lacan takes a member stand in the crisis of the [[SPPuniversity]] that follows May [[1968]]: "If psychoanalysis cannot be articulated as a [[knowledge]] and taught as such, it has no [[place]]in the university, which was deals only with knowledge." The ENS director finds a member body pretext for telling Lacan that he is no longer welcome at the ENS at the beginning of the academic year. Moreover, the journal ''Cahiers pour l'[[Analyse]]'' has to cease publication, but [[Vincennes]] appears as an alternative. Michel [[Foucault]] asks Lacan to create and direct the Department of Psychoanlaysis at Vincennes. Thanks to Lévi-Strauss, Lacan moves his seminars to the law school of the Panthéon. ;1974:The Vincennes Department of Psychoanalysis is renamed "[[International Psychoanalytical AssociationLe Champ freudien]] (" with Lacan its director and [[IPAJacques-Alain Miller]])its president. ;1980In 1951:On 9 January, Lacan announces the [[dissolution]] of the EFP and asks those who [[SPPwish]] to continue [[working]] begins with him to raise [[state]] their intentions in [[writing]]. He receives over one thousand letters within a week. On 21 February, Lacan announces the issue founding of the school ''[[LacanLa Cause freudienne]]'s practice of using sessions of variable duration', as opposed to later renamed the standard analytical hour''[[Ecole de la Cause freudienne]]''.;1981:9 September, Lacan dies in Paris.<!--;1901 - 1938:[[Lacan]] defends studies medicine and [[psychiatry]] and completes his use of short sessions[[De la psychose paranoiaque dans ses rapports avec la personalité|doctoral thesis]] on [[paranoia|paranoid]] [[psychosis]]. In 1953, He presents a paper on the [[mirror stage]] - his first theoretical contribution to [[Lacanpsychoanalysis]] is elected president - at a conference of the [[SPPInternational Psycho-Analytical Association]] in [[Marienbad]].;1938 - 1953 However, six months later he resigns from :[[Lacan]] is a member of the ''[[SPPSociété psychanalytique de Paris]] '' until he resigns to join the ''[[Société Française de Psychanalyse]]''.;1953 - 1963:[[Lacan]] begins his first [[public]] [[seminar]] (which he will continue to give annually until his [[SFPdeath]]) with D. LagacheThereafter, he rises to become a renowned and controversial [[figure]] in the international psychoanalytic [[community]].;1963 - 1980:[[Lacan]] leaves the [[SFP]] and founds his own [[school]], Fthe ''[[École Freudienne de Paris]]'' . DoltoFollowing the publication of the [[Écrits]], Jthere is an explosion of interest in his work in France and abroad. Favez--><!--{| class="wikitable" width="100%" cellpadding="2" align="center" bgcolor="ffffff" style="background:#ffffff;width:100%; height:200px; text-align:center; line-Boutonier among othersheight:2.0em;"| width="50px" style="valign:top;" | [[{{Y}}|1901]]<BR>-<BR>[[{{Y}}|1938]]<BR>The | align="[[left]]" style="padding: 0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em; margin: 0.5em 0 1em 0;" | [[Lacan]] studies medicine and [[psychiatry]] and completes his [[De la psychose paranoiaque dans ses rapports avec la personalité|doctoral thesis]] on [[paranoia|paranoid]] [[psychosis]].He presents a paper on the [[SFPmirror stage]] sought -- his first theoretical contribution to become recognized by [[psychoanalysis]] -- at a conference of the [[International Psycho-Analytical Association]] ([[IPA]] as a member society) in Marienbad.|-| width="50px" | [[{{Y}}|1938]]<BR>-<BR>[[{{Y}}|1953]]<BR>In 1963, | align="left" style="padding: 0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em; margin: 0.5em 0 1em 0;" | [[Lacan]] is a member of the ([[IPA]] affiliated) ''[[SFPSociété psychanalytique de Paris]]'' ([[SPP]] is granted affiliation ) until he resigns to join the ''[[Société Française de Psychanalyse]]'' ([[IPASFP]]).|-| width="50px" | [[{{Y}}|1953]]<BR>-<BR>[[{{Y}}|1963]] as a member society on condition that <BR>| align="left" style="padding: 0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em; margin: 0.5em 0 1em 0;" | [[Lacan]] be removed from 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 list of training analystsinternational psychoanalytic community.|-In | width="50px" | [[{{Y}}|1963, ]]<BR>-<BR>[[{{Y}}|1980]]<BR>| align="left" style="padding: 0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em; margin: 0.5em 0 1em 0;" | [[Lacan]] resigns leaves the [[SFP]] (after his "[[expulsion]]" from the [[SFPIPA]] ) 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.|-In | width="50px" | [[{{Y}}|1980, ]]<BR>-<BR>[[{{Y}}|1981]]<BR>| align="left" style="padding: 0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em; margin: 0.5em 0 1em 0;" | [[Lacan]] single-handedly dissolves the [[EFP]] and creates in its stead the ''[[École de la Cause freudienne|Cause freudienne]]''. In 1981However, [[Lacan]] soon dissolves the ''[[schoolÉcole de la Cause freudienne|Cause freudienne]] is dissolved '' and replaces it with the ''[[school|École de la Cause freudienne]] is created to replace it. [[Lacan]] dies in Paris on 9 September, 1981 at the age of eighty''.|}-->

<blockquote>''[[Work of Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|Click here]] for a more [[complete ]] [[bibliography ]] of [[Jacques Lacan]]'s [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]].''</blockquote>

{{LA}}pp[[Lacan]]'s most important theoretical contributions to [[psychoanalysis]] were presented in his [[seminar]]s. 5–6In 1966, 21, 28–29, 33–39, 65, 75, 88, 90–91, 95–96, 98, 103, 108–110, 118–119, 125–126, 128–132, 135–139, 151–153, 158, 161–169a selection of [[Lacan]]'s most important papers are published under the title ''[[Écrits]]''; in 2006 a complete edition of these works was published in [[English]].

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