Jacques Lacan
Jacques-Marie Émile Lacan (April 13, 1901 – September 9, 1981) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
One of the most important -- and controversial -- figures in the history of psychoanalysis, Lacan is also acknowledged for his influence across a broad range of disciplines, from film and literary theory to political philosophy and cultural studies.
Biography
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In 1927, Lacan begins his clincial training in psychiatry at the Sainte-Anne hospital, where he would later teach.
In 1932, Lacan publishes his doctoral disseration (On paranoiac psychosis in its relations to the personality).
In 1936, Lacan presents his paper on the mirror stage at a conference of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) in Marienbad.
In 1953, Lacan begins his first public seminar in Hôpital Sainte-Anne.
In 1938, Lacan becomes a member of the Société psychanalytique de Paris (SPP), a member body of the IPA.
In 1953, Lacan is elected president of the SPP. However, six months later he resigns from the SPP to join the Société Française de Psychanalyse (SFP) with Daniel Lagache and Francoise Dolto among others.
From 1954 to 1963, after a series of requests and a lengthy committee investigation, the SFP is granted IPA affiliation as a member society on condition that Lacan be removed from the list of training analysts.
In 1963, Lacan resigns from the SFP and founds his own school, the École Freudienne de Paris (EFP).
In 1980, Lacan dissolves the EFP and creates in its stead the Cause freudienne.
In 1981, the Cause freudienne is dissolved and the École de la Cause freudienne is created to replace it.
Development
In the 1950s, Lacan places his greatest emphasis on the role of language in psychoanalysis and formulated his most important thesis: that the unconscious is structured like a language.
(This was an extraordinarily innovative period for Lacan and he introduced many of the concepts that would preoccupy him for the rest of his career.)
Lacan drew on a field of study known as Structuralism and on linguistic theory.
Claude Lévi-Strauss's elementary structure of kinship provided the basis for Lacan's conception of the symbolic order and the formation of the unconscious.
Lévi-Strauss's structural anthropology was facilitated by the work of the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) and it was through Lévi-Strauss that Lacan began to read linguistics.
Structuralism
Bibliography
Click here for a more complete bibliography of Jacques Lacan's work.
Lacan's most important theoretical contributions to psychoanalysis were presented in his seminars.
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).
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