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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>;1901In 1927:13 April, Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan is [[Lacanborn]] in Paris, to a [[family]] of solid [[Catholic]] [[tradition]] begins . He is educated at the collège Stanislas, a Jesuit school. After his ''baccalauréat'' he studies [[treatment|clincial trainingmedicine]] in and later [[psychiatry]] .;1927: Starts clinical [[training]], works at the [[Sainte-Anne 's hospital]], . A year later he works in the Special Infirmary Service where he would later teach[[Clérambault]] had a [[practice]].;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 1936:The richness of his thesis, especially the [[Lacananalysis]] presents his paper on of the [[mirror stagecase]] at a conference of [[Aimée]], makes him famous with the [[Surrealist]]s. BEtween this year and 1939 he takes [[Kojève]]'''s course at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes [[Etudes]], an "Introduction to the [[International Psychoanalytical Associationreading]]''' (of [[IPAHegel]]) in Marienbad.";1934In 1953:He [[marries]] [[Marie-Louise]] Blondon, [[Lacanmother]] of [[Caroline]] begins his first public , [[seminarThibaut]] in and [[Hôpital Sainte-AnneSibylle]]. In 1938, While in analysis with Rudolph [[LacanLoewenstein]] , Lacan becomes a member of the '''[[[Société Psychanalytique de Paris|Société psychanalytique de Paris]]']]'' ([[Société psychanalytique de Paris|SPP]]).;1940:Works at Val-de-Grâce, a member body of the military hospital in Paris. During the [[German]] Occupation, he does not take part in any [IPA[official]] [[activity]].;1946:In 19531946, the [[SPP]] resumes its activities and Lacan, with Nacht and Lagache, takes charge of training [[analyses]]and supervisory [[control] ] and plays an important [[theoretical]] and institutional [[role]].;1951:The [[SPP]] begins to raise the issue of Lacan's [[short sessions]], as opposed to the standard analytical hour.;1953:In January Lacan is elected president President of the [[SPP]]. However, six Six months later he resigns from the [[SPP]] to join the '''[[Société Française de Psychanalyse]]''' ([[SFP]]) with D. Lagache, F. Dolto, J. Favez-Boutonier among [[Daniel Lagacheothers]]. In Rome, Lacan delivers his report, "''[[Fonction et champ de la parole et du langage]]''". On 17 July he marries [[Sylvia]] Maklès, mother of [[Judith]]. That autumn Lacan starts his [[seminar]]s at the [[Hôspital Sainte-Anne]].;1954:The first ten [[seminar]]s elaborate fundamental notions [[about]] [[psychoanalytic]] [[technique]], the essential [[concepts]] of [[psychoanalysis]] , and its [[Francoise Doltoethics]]. During this period Lacan writes, on the basis of his seminars, conferences and addresses in colloquia, the major [[texts]] that are found in ''[[Ecrits]] among others'' in 1966.;1956From 1954 :Celebrities are attracted to 1963his seminars ([[Jean Hyppolite]]'s analysis of [[Freud]]'s article on ''Dé[[négation]]'', given during the first seminar, after is a series of requests well-known example). [[Alexandre Koyré]], Claude Lévi-[[Strauss]], Maurice [[Merleau-Ponty]], and a lengthy committee investigationethnologist Marcel Griaule, Emile Benveniste among others attend his courses.;1962:[[SFP]] members [[want]] to be recognized by the [[SFPInternational Psycho-Analytical Association]] is granted ([[IPA]] affiliation as a member society on condition that ). The [[IPA]] issues an ultimatum: Lacan's [[name]] must be removed from crossed off the list of [[training|training analystslist]]of didacticians.;1963In 1963:Two weeks before the expiry of the deadline set by the IPA (31 October), the committee of didacticians of the [[LacanSFP]] resigns from gives up its courageous stand of 1962 and pronounces in favour of the ban: Lacan is no longer one of the didacticians.;1964:Lacanians [[SFPform]] and a Study Group on Psychoanalysis organized by Jean Clavreul, until Lacan official founds his own the ''[[schoolEcole Française de Psychanalyse]]'', which soon becomes the '''[[École Ecole Freudienne de Paris]]''' ([[EFP]]). With [[Lévi-Strauss]] and [[Althusser]]'s support, he is appointed lecturer at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes.;1965:In 1980January Lacan begins his new seminar on "[[The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis]]" at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. His audience is made up of [[analysts]] and young students in philosophy at the ENS, notably [[Jacques-Alain Miller]].;1966:[[Ecrits]], Paris: Seuil 1966. The book draws considerable attention to the [[EFP]], extending far beyond the intelligentsia.;1967:Lacanpresents the ''[[Acte]] dissolves de Fondation'' of the [[EFP]] and creates ; its novelty lies in its stead the procedure of ''[[passe]]''. The ''[[École de la Cause freudienne|Cause freudiennepasse]]'' consists of testifying, in front of two ''passeurs''. In 1981, to one's [[experience]] as an analysand and especially to the crucial [[moment]] of passage from the [[position]] of [[analysand]] to that of [[analyst]]. The ''passeurs'' are chosen by their [[École de la Cause freudienne|Cause freudienneanalyst]]s (generally analysts of the EFP) and should be at the same [[stage]] in their [[analytic]]experience as the ''passant' is dissolved '. They listen to him and then, in turn, they testify to what they have heard in front of a committee for approval composed of the 'director, Lacan, and of some AE, ''[[École de la Cause freudienneanalyste]]de l'école''(analyst of the school). This committee' s function is created to replace itselect the analysts of the School and to elaborate, after the selecting [[process]], a 'work of [[doctrine]]'.;1969==Development== In :The issue of the ''passe'' keeps invading the 1950s, EFP's [[Lacanlife]] places his greatest emphasis on . "''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 stand in the role crisis of the [[languageuniversity]] in that follows May [[1968]]: "If psychoanalysiscannot be articulated as a [[knowledge]] and formulated his most important thesis: taught as such, it has no [[place]] in the university, which deals only with knowledge." The ENS director finds a pretext for telling Lacan that he is no longer welcome at the ENS at the beginning of the academic year. Moreover, the journal ''the unconscious is structured like a languageCahiers 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(This was an extraordinarily innovative period for :The Vincennes Department of Psychoanalysis is renamed "[[Le Champ freudien]]" with Lacan its director and he introduced many [[Jacques-Alain Miller]] its president.;1980:On 9 January, Lacan announces the [[dissolution]] of the concepts that would preoccupy EFP and asks those who [[wish]] to continue [[working]] with him for to [[state]] their intentions in [[writing]]. He receives over one thousand letters within a week. On 21 February, Lacan announces the rest founding of his careerthe school ''[[La Cause freudienne]]'', later renamed the ''[[Ecole de la Cause freudienne]]''.;1981:9 September, Lacan dies in Paris.)<!--;1901 - 1938:[[Lacan]] drew 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 field paper on the [[mirror stage]] - his first theoretical contribution to [[psychoanalysis]] - at a conference of the [[International Psycho-Analytical Association]] in [[Marienbad]].;1938 - 1953 :[[Lacan]] is a member of study known as 'the ''[[StructuralismSociété psychanalytique de Paris]]''' and on 'until he resigns to join the ''[[linguistics|linguistic theorySociété Française de Psychanalyse]]'''.;1953 - 1963:[[Claude LéviLacan]] 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]].;1963 -Strauss1980:[[Lacan]] leaves the [[SFP]] and founds his own [[school]], the 's ''elementary [[structureÉcole Freudienne de Paris]] of kinship'' provided . Following the publication of the basis for [[LacanÉcrits]]'s conception , there is an explosion of the interest in his work in France and abroad.--><!--{| class="wikitable" width="100%" cellpadding="2" align="center" bgcolor="ffffff" style="background:#ffffff;width:100%; height:200px; text-align:center; line-height:2.0em;"| width="50px" style="valign:top;" | [[{{Y}}|1901]]<BR>-<BR>[[{{Y}}|1938]]<BR>| align="[[left]]" style="padding: 0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em; margin: 0.5em 0 1em 0;" | [[symbolicLacan]] studies medicine and [[orderpsychiatry]] 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 formation [[mirror stage]] -- his first theoretical contribution to [[psychoanalysis]] -- at a conference of the [[unconsciousInternational Psycho-Analytical Association]] ([[IPA]]) in Marienbad. |-| width="50px" | [[Lévi{{Y}}|1938]]<BR>-Strauss<BR>[[{{Y}}|1953]]'s <BR>| align="left" style="padding: 0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em; margin: 0.5em 0 1em 0;" | [[structuralism|structural anthropologyLacan]] was facilitated by the work is a member of the Swiss ([[linguistics|linguistIPA]] affiliated) ''[[Ferdinand Société psychanalytique de SaussureParis]] '' (1857[[SPP]]) until he resigns to join the ''[[Société Française de Psychanalyse]]'' ([[SFP]]).|-1913) and it was through | width="50px" | [[Lévi{{Y}}|1953]]<BR>-Strauss<BR>[[{{Y}}|1963]] that <BR>| align="left" style="padding: 0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em; margin: 0.5em 0 1em 0;" | [[Lacan]] began to read begins his first public [[linguisticsseminar]](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.|-| width="50px" | [[{{Y}}|1963]]<BR>-<BR>[[{{Y}}|1980]]<BR>| align="left" style=Structuralism"padding: 0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.5em; margin: 0.5em 0 1em 0;" | [[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.|-| 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]]''.However, [[Lacan]] soon dissolves the ''[[École de la Cause freudienne|Cause freudienne]]'' and replaces it with the ''[[École de la Cause freudienne]]''.|}-->

<blockquote>''[[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|Click here]] for a more [[complete ]] [[bibliography ]] of [[Jacques Lacan]]'s [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|work]].''</blockquote> [[Lacan]]'s most important theoretical contributions to [[psychoanalysis]] were presented in his [[seminar]]s. In 1966, a selection of [[Lacan]]'s most important papers are published under the title ''[[Écrits]]''; fewer than one-third of them are included in the English ''[[Écrits: A Selection]]'' (1977).

{{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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