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Jacques Lacan:Biography

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==Chronology==
* Born in Paris, 1901==Biography==* 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 [[Chronology|Click here for a new Societe Fran~aise de Psychanalyse. Formation more complete chronology of '''Jacques 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 methodslife]]. * 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
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| width="50px" style="valign:top;" | 1901 - 1938<BR>
| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] studies medicine and [[psychiatry]] and completes his doctoral thesis on [[paranoia|paranoid]] [[psychosis]].<ref>''[[On paranoiac psychosis in its relations to the personality|De la psychose paranoiaque dans ses rapports avec la personalité]]'' ("[[On paranoiac psychosis in its relations to the personality|On Paranoid Psychosis and Its Relations to the Personality]]").</ref>
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.
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| width="50px" | 1938 - 1953<BR>
| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] is a member of the ([[IPA]] affiliated) ''[[Société psychanalytique de Paris]]'' ([[SPP]]) until he resigns to join the ''[[Société Française de Psychanalyse]]'' ([[SFP]]).
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| width="50px" | 1953 - 1963<BR>
| width="550px" | [[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.
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| width="50px" | 1963 - 1980<BR>
| width="550px" | [[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.
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| width="50px" | 1980 - 1981<BR>
| width="550px" | [[Lacan]] single-handedly dissolves the [[EFP]] and creates in its stead the ''[[École de la Cause freudienne|Cause freudienne]]''.<ref>[[Lacan]] states: "It is up to you to be Lacanians if you wish; I am Freudian."</ref>
However, [[Lacan]] soon dissolves the ''[[École de la Cause freudienne|Cause freudienne]]'' and replaces it with the ''[[École de la Cause freudienne]]''.
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