Jacques Lacan
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Jacques-Marie Émile Lacan (13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Lacan is one of the most important – and controversial – figures in the history of psychoanalysis whose influence had spread across a broad range of academic disciplines.
Biography
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- 1901 - 1938
- Lacan studies medicine and psychiatry and completes his doctoral thesis on paranoid psychosis.
- He presents a paper on the mirror stage -- his first theoretical contribution to psychoanalysis -- at a conference of the International Psycho-Analytical Association (IPA) in Marienbad.
- 1938 - 1953
- Lacan is a member of the (IPA affiliated) Société psychanalytique de Paris (SPP) until he resigns to join the Société Française de Psychanalyse (SFP).
- 1953 - 1963
- 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.
- 1963 - 1980
- 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.
Bibliography
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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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