Jacques Lacan:Biography

Jacques Lacan born in Paris, the eldest son of prosperous, bourgeois parents. After attending a well-known Jesuit school - he was raised a Catholic but did not practice Catholicism - he studies medicine and then psychiatry.
Begins his clinical training and then works in several psychiatric hospitals in Paris.

1901	Jacques Lacan born in Paris, the eldest son of prosperous, bourgeois parents. After attending a well-known Jesuit school - he was raised a Catholic but did not practice Catholicism - he studies medicine and then psychiatry.
1927	Begins his clinical training and then works in several psychiatric hospitals in Paris.
1927	Begins his clinical training and then works in several psychiatric hospitals in Paris.
1927	Begins his clinical training and then works in several psychiatric hospitals in Paris.
1927	Begins his clinical training and then works in several psychiatric hospitals in Paris.
1927	Begins his clinical training and then works in several psychiatric hospitals in Paris.
1927	Begins his clinical training and then works in several psychiatric hospitals in Paris.
1927	Begins his clinical training and then works in several psychiatric hospitals in Paris.
1927	Begins his clinical training and then works in several psychiatric hospitals in Paris.
1927	Begins his clinical training and then works in several psychiatric hospitals in Paris.
1927	Begins his clinical training and then works in several psychiatric hospitals in Paris.

• Born in Paris, 1901
• Medical training in the Paris Medical Faculty. Became Chef de Clinique in 1932.
• Doctoral thesis for psychiatric degree - "Paranoid psychosis and its relation to the personality" (1932).
• Association with the French surrealist movement, from early 1930s.
• 1934 - Joined the Societe Psychanalytique de Paris.
• 1936 - Presented paper on the 'mirror stage' to the Interna­tional Psychoanalytic Congress in Marienbad.
• Until 1952 - Distinguished member of the French psychoanalytic establishment. Intellectual contacts with Merleau-Ponty and Levi-Strauss, through the College Philosophique, Paris.
• 1953 - Presentation of the Rome Discourse. Controversy within the Paris psychoanalytic society. Daniel Lagache. followed by Lacan, formed a new Societe Fran~aise de Psychanalyse. Formation of Lacan's Seminar.
• 1953 to early 1960s - continuous development of ideas, par­ticularly those put forward as programme in the Rome Dis­course, involving psychoanalysis and linguistics.
• 1963 - Expelled, finally, from International Psychoanalytic Association, because of unorthodox practice and teaching methods.
• 1964 - Reformed his analytic society, calling it L'Ecole Freudienne de Paris.
• 1966 - Publication of his Ecrits, following by explosion of his inflience in French society. He soon became a cultural phenomenon.
• 1966 to 1980 - Increasing interest in his work in France and abroad.
• 1968 - May revolution. Lacan supported the students' revolt. President of the psychoanalytic department of University of Vincennes.
• 1980 - Dissolved the Ecole Freduienne, and formed La Cause Freudienne.
• 1981 - Death