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* '''13 April'''
: [[Jacques Lacan|Lacan]] is was born in [[Paris]], the first child of prosperous, bourgeois parents, [[Alfred Lacan]] and [[Emilie Baudry]], a family of solid Catholic tradition.<!-- " [[Jacques Lacan|Lacan]] is was born in [[Paris]] (France) (95 boulevard Beaumarchais), the first child (eldest son) of (prosperous, bourgeois parents) Alfred Lacan (1873–1960) and Emilie Baudry (1876–1948) (a middle-class Roman-Catholic family) (a family of solid Catholic tradition). --><!-- Lacan grew up in a well-off middle-class Catholic family in Montparnasse, Paris. -->
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==1907==
* [[Lacan]] enters the very select Collège Stanislas, a Marist college catering to the Parisian bourgeoisie, where he receives a solid primary and secondary education with a strong religious and traditionalist emphasis (1907-1919). He completes his studies in 1919. <!--- He attended a prestigious Catholic school, the Collège Stanislas, where he was recognized as a very bright pupil, although not exceptional. Lacan did however excel in religious studies and Latin. While at school he developed a lifelong passion for philosophy and in particular the work of Baruch Spinoza (1632-77), which was overridingly concerned with the idea of God's existence. -->
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==1908==
* Birth of Marc-François, Lacan's brother (25 December).* ''1 November birth ''' : Birth of [[Sylvia Maklès]], Lacan’s [[Lacan]]’s second wife.<!-- * 25 December birth of Marc-Marie, Marc-François, Lacan’s brother.-->
==1910==
* '''Autumn'''
: [[Lacan]] finishes his secondary education at the Collège Stanislas. He decides to embark on a medical career and enters the Paris Medical Faculty.
<!-- After leaving school Lacan went on to study medicine and specialized in psychiatry with a particular interest in psychosis.-->
==1920==
==1921==
* Lacan is discharged from military service because of excessive thinness. In the following years he studies medicine in Paris.* Lacan discharged from military service due to thinness.'''7 December'''* December :[[Lacan ]] attends the first public reading of ''[[Ulysses ]]'' by [[James Joyce (1882-1941) ]] at Shakespeare and Co in Paris.* Lacan is discharged from military service because of excessive thinness. * 7 December Lacan <!-- hears the lecture on [[Joyce]]'s ''[[Ulysses ]]'' by Valéry Larbaud with readings from the text, an event organized by La maison des amis des livres, and at which [[James Joyce ]] is present.-->
==1925==
==1926==
* Lacan's first collaborative publication appears in the Revue Neurologique. ''4 November''' : The [[Société Psychanalytique de Paris ]] ([[SPP]]) is founded, the first [[school|association]] of [[{{G}}|French]] [[psychoanalyst]]s.<!-- first [[French]] [[Freud]]ian [[school|society]], --><!-- * 4 November creation By a curious coincidence, it is the day of Lacan's first clinical presentation in front of Théophile Alajouanine and other doctors. Lacan co-authors his first paper with Alajouanine and Delafontaine on the Société Psychanalytique de Paris (SPP)Parinaud syndrome, published in the first association of French psychoanalystsRevue neurologique.* / Lacan conducts his first case-presentation, at the Société Neurologique in Paris. He publishes his first paper, co-authored with Th. Alajouanine and P. Delafontaine, in the Revue neurologique, based on the case presentation of 4 November.* 4 November The / Lacan's first French Freudian society, collaborative publication appears in the Revue Neurologique. The Société psychanalytique Psychanalytique de Paris, (SPP) is createdfounded. By a curious coincidence, it is the day of Lacan's first clinical presentation in front of Théophile Alajouanine and other doctors. Lacan co-authors his first paper with Alajouanine and Delafontaine on the Parinaud syndrome, published in the Revue neurologique.->
==1927==
* [[Lacan ]] begins his clinical [[clinic]]al training in [[psychiatry]].* <!-- Lacan begins his clinical training and then works in several psychiatric hospitals in Paris.* Starts clinical training, works at Sainte-Anne's hospital in the second section of women and in the Clinic for Mental and Encephalic Diseases directed by Professor Henri Claude. A year later he works in the Special Infirmary Service where Clérambault had a practice. Up to 1932 Lacan was involved in the Societété Neurologique, the Société de Psychiatrie and the Société Clinique de Médecine mentale, he was fully integrated in the official circles of neurology and psychiatry.-->
==1927==
==1928==
* [[Lacan ]] begins [[clinical]] [[training]] at Paris Police Special Infirmary for the Insane ([[L’Infirmerie Spéciale de la Préfecture de Police]]), under the supervision of [[Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault]], whose unconventional style of teaching will exert a lasting influence on [[Lacan]].<!-- * [[Lacan]] studies under [[Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault ]] (1872-1934) at the special infirmary for the insane attached to the Police Préfecture. -->* Engagement with [[Lacan]] becomes engaged to [[Marie-Thérèse Bergerot]], to whom Lacan he will dedicate his [[{{Y}}|1932]] [[doctoral thesis]]. <!-- with a line of thanks in Greek, the other dedicatee being his brother --><!-- Marriage of Georges Bataille (1897-1962) and Sylvia Maklès.--><!-- * Lacan co-authors with M. Trénel an article on “Abasia in a case of war trauma” in the Revue neurologique. He publishes with J. Lévy-Valensi and M. Meignant a paper on “hallucinatory delirium.” Altogether, between 1928 and 1930, he co-authors five more neurological studies based on psychiatric cases. Engagement to Marie -Thérèse Bergerot, to whom he will dedicate his 1932 doctoral thesis with a line of thanks in Greek, the other dedicatee being his brother. Clinical training at the Paris Police Special Infirmary for the Insane under the supervision of Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault, whose unconventional style of teaching will exert a lasting influence on Lacan.* Clinical training at L’Infirmerie Spéciale de la Préfecture de Police, under the supervision of Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault (1872-1934).>
==1929==
==1930==
<!-- * Lacan publishes his first non-collaborative article in Annales Médico-Psychologiques.* Meets Salvador Dalí (1904-1989).* / First non-collaborative paper in Annales médico-psychologiques.--><!-- * 10 June birth of Laurence Bataille, daughter of Georges Bataille and Sylvia Maklès.* August-September work placement at the Burghölzli clinic in Zürich.->* '''July ''' : Arranges to meet [[Salvador Dalí ]]<!-- who has published “The rotten donkey” in July 1930. His poetic praise of paranoia has attracted Lacan's attention. Lacan and Salvador Dalí remain friends all their lives. Friendship with the novelist Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. From 1929 to 1933 Lacan is the lover of Olesia Sienkiewicz, Drieu's estranged second wife. / August–September Lacan takes a two-month training course at the Burgh ölzli clinic in Z ürich. /August-September work placement at the Burghölzli clinic in Zürich. -->
==1931==
<!-- * [[Lacan ]] becomes increasingly interested in [[surrealism ]] and meets [[Salvador Dalí]]. -->* '''18 June''': [[Lacan]] examines [[Marguerite Pantaine-Anzieu]], who is admitted to [[Sainte-Anne hospital]] after an attempt to assassinate the actress [[Huguette Duflos]]. [[Lacan]]’s investigation of the case constitutes the central part of his [[doctoral thesis]] ("[[Le Cas Aimée]]"). [[Lacan]] calls her [[Aimée]] and makes her case the cornerstone of his [[doctoral dissertation]].<!-- * Lacan presents some of his hypotheses at the Evolution Psychiatrique and publishes the following year in the Revue française de psychanalyse his translation of Freud's "On Some Neurotic Mechanisms in Jealousy, Paranoia and Homosexuality." Receives a diploma as a forensic psychiatrist. He publishes ''Structure des psychoses paranoïaques'', Semaine des Hôpitaux de Paris, 7 July 1931.* 18 June Lacan examines Marguerite Pantaine-Anzieu (1892-1981), who is admitted to Sainte-Anne hospital after an attempt to assassinate the actress Huguette Duflos. Lacan’s investigation of the case constitutes the central part of his doctoral thesis (‘Le Cas Aimée’).* 18 June Lacan examines Marguerite Pantaine-Anzieu, who has been admitted to Sainte-Anne hospital after stabbing the actress Huguette Duflos. Lacan calls her Aimée and makes her case the cornerstone of his doctoral dissertation.>
==1932==
==1933==
* Lacan publishes (two) articles in the surrealist journal ''Minotaure''. He starts attending KojEve's lectures on Hegel.* Two articles by Lacan are published in the surrealist journal Minotaure. [[Alexandre Kojève ]] begins lecturing on [[Hegel]]'s [[Phenomenology of Spirit ]] at the [[Ecole des Hautes Études]].[[Lacan ]] attends these lectures regularly over the following years.<!-- * Because of his thesis he becomes a specialist in [[paranoia]]. The richness of his text and the multiplicity of its aspects appealed to very different circles, especially the analysis of the case of Aimée make him famous with the Surrealists. Between this year and 1939, he takes Kojève's course at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, an "Introduction to the reading of Hegel." He publishes ''Motifs du crime paranoïque: le crime des soeurs Papin''. Minotaure 3/4.--><!-- * [[Lacan ]] falls in love with [[Marie-Louise Blondin, the sister of his friend Sylvain Blondin (1901]]. --1975).>* '''October ''':[[Lacan ]] starts attending the seminar on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit by Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968) at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, where he meets Georges Bataille and Raymond Queneau (1903-1976).<!-- * Lacan publishes a sonnet, “Hiatus Irrationalis, ” in Le Phare de Neuilly 3/4. He meets Marie-Louise Blondin, the sister of his friend Sylvain Blondin. October Lacan attends Alexander Kojève's seminar on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit at the Ecole pratique des hautes études. There he meets Georges Bataille and Raymond Queneau, both of whom will remain friends. He publishes “The problem of style and the psychiatric conception of paranoiac forms of experience” and “Motivations of paranoid crime: the crime of the Papin sisters” in the Surrealist journal Le Minotaure 1 and 3/4.-->
==1934==
<!-- * [[Georges Bataille]] and [[Sylvia Maklès]] separate. -->* '''29 January''':[[Lacan, who is already in analysis with Rudolph Loewenstein, joins the SPP as ]] marries [[Marie-Louise Blondin]]. * '''November''':[[Lacan]] becomes a candidate member(''membre adhérent'') of the [[Société psychanalytique de Paris]] ([[SPP]]). <!-- He marries Marie-Louise Blondin in January, who gives birth to their first child, Caroline, the same month.* Lacan enters analysis with Rudolph Lowewnstein and becomes an active member of the SeociEtE Psychanlytique de Paris (SPP).* He is appointed doctor of the Asiles, and marries Marie-Louise Blondin, mother of Caroline, Thibaut and Sibylle. While in analysis with Rudolph Loewenstein, Lacan becomes a member of La Société Psychoanalytique de Paris (SPP). * Lacan, who is already in analysis with Rudolph Loewenstein, joins the SPP as a candidate member. * Lacan enters analysis with Rudolph Lowewnstein and becomes an active member of the SeociEtE Psychanlytique de Paris (SPP). Loewenstein is one of the four training analysts of the S.P.P. His analysis ends in 1939 with Loewenstein's departure to the war.* [[Lacan ]] sees his first private patient.* Georges Bataille and Sylvia Maklès separate.* 29 January Lacan marries Marie-Louise Blondin. * November Lacan becomes a candidate member (membre adhérent) of the SPP.* Lacan sees his first patient. 29 January Marriage with Marie-Louise Blondin. November Lacan becomes a candidate member of the Société psychanalytique de Paris.->
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==1936==
<!-- * Reads a major papers to the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) on the mirror-stage theory which remains unpublished (the version included in ''Escits'' dates from 1949). * 3 August Lacan attends the 14th Congress of the IPA at Marienbad (Máriánské Lézně, Czech Republic), where he presents ‘Le stade du miroir’.* 3 August Lacan attends the 14th congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association at Marienbad, where he presents his paper on the mirror stage. After ten minutes, he is brutally interrupted by Ernest Jones. Quite upset, Lacan leaves the conference. He will never submit his text for publication. -->* '''3 August''':[[Lacan]] presents his paper on the [[mirror stage]] to the fourteenth congress of the [[IPA]] at Marienbad. He sets up private practice as a psychoanalyst.
==1938==
<!-- *Accepted as training analyst by the International Psychoanalytic Assoication.* Lacan becomes a full member of the SPP, and his article on the family is published in the Encyclopédie Française. After Hitler's annexation of Austria, Freud leaves Vienna to settle in London; on his way to London he passes through Paris, but Lacandecides not to attend the small gathering organised in Freud's honour.* Becomes a full member of the SPP. Lectures at the S.P.P. on De l'impulsion au complexe where he argues for a "primordial structural stage" called "stage of the fragmented body in the development of the ego." At this stage "pure drives" (''la pulsion à l'état pur'') would appear in states of "horror" inseparable from a "passive beatitude." To defend his thesis, he presents two cases of patients at length. He publishes ''La famille: Encyclopédie française'', Vol. 8.-->* [[Lacan]] writes a long [[article on the family]] for the [[Encyclopédie française]]. Its final title is "[[Family complexes in the formation of the individual. An attempt at analysis of a function in psychology]]" ("[[Les Complexes familiaux dans la formation de l'individu. Essai d'analyse d'une function en psychologie]]'').''<!-- AE, pp. 23–84 --><!-- * Writes a long text on the [[family ]] for the [[Encyclopédie française ]] commissioned by Henri Wallon (1879-1962) and Lucien Febvre (1878-1956).* Lacan starts a relationship with Sylvia MaklèsThe essay, commissioned by Henri Wallon and Lucien Febvre, is found too dense and has to be rewritten several times. --Bataille.>* '''5 June ''': After [[Hitle]]r's annexation of [[Austria]], [[Freud]] leaves [[Vienna]] to settle in [[London]]; on his way to [[London]], [[Sigmund Freud ]] stops in [[Paris]], where [[Marie Bonaparte ]] organizes a party in his honourhonor. [[Lacan ]] does not attend.* December <!-- he passes through Paris, but Lacan finishes his analysis with Loewenstein and becomes a full member (membre titulaire) of the SPP.* Lacan writes a long article on the family for the Encyclopédie française. The essay, commissioned by Henri Wallon and Lucien Febvre, is found too dense and has decides not to be rewritten several times. Its final title is “Family complexes in attend the formation of the individual. An attempt at analysis of a function small gathering organised in psychology” (“Les Complexes familiaux dans la formation de lFreud'individu. Essai d'analyse d'une function en psychologie”, AE, pp. 23–84)s honour. -->* [[Lacan ]] starts a relationship with [[Sylvia Maklès-Bataille]], who has separated from [[Georges Bataille ]] in [[{{Y}}#1934|1934]]. * '''December ''': [[Lacan ]] finishes his [[analysis ]] with [[Loewenstein ]] and is made becomes a full member (''membre titulaire'') of the [[Société psychanalytique de Paris]] ([[SPP]]).<!-- * [[Lacan]] is accepted as [[training]] [[analyst]] by the [[International Psychoanalytic Association]]. -->
==1939==
==1940==
* Works at Val-de-Grâce, the military hospital in Paris. During the German Occupation, he does not partake in any official activity. "For several years I have kept myself from expressing myself. The humiliation of our time under the subjugation of the enemies of human kind dissuaded me from speaking up, and following Fontenelle, I abandoned myself to the fantasy of having my hand full of truths so as to better close it on them." In "Propos sur la causalité psychique," from 1946 and published in ''Écrits''.
* June installation of the Vichy regime. The SPP suspends all its activities.
* 26 November birth of Sibylle Lacan, third child of Lacan and Marie-Louise Blondin.
* June When the Vichy regime is put in place, the Société psychanalytique de Paris (despite some efforts at imitating the German Psychoanalytic Society) suspends all its activities. * 26 November Birth of Sybille Lacan, third child of Lacan and Marie-Louise Blondin.
==1941==
* '''3 July''': [[Judith Lacan]], the daughter of [[Lacan]] and [[Sylvia Maklès-Bataille]], is born. [[Judith]] receives the surname [[Bataille]] because [[Lacan]] is still married to [[Marie-Louise]].<!-- [[Sylvia Bataille]], estranged wife of [[Georges Bataille]], gives birth to [[Judith]]. Though Judith is Lacan's daughter, she receives the surname Bataille because Lacan is still married to Marie-Louise. Marie-Louise now requests a divorce.* Spring Lacan moves to 5, rue de Lille in Paris, where he will continue to see patients until his death.* 3 July birth of Judith Bataille, daughter of Lacan and Sylvia Maklès-Bataille.->* '''15 December ''': [[Lacan ]] and [[Marie-Louise Blondin ]] are officially divorced[[divorce]]d.* <!-- In the Spring , Lacan Lacan moves to 5 rue de Lillein Paris, where his office will be located , where he will continue to see patients until his death. After his death, a commemorating plaque was put on the façade. * 3 July Birth of Judith Bataille, daughter of Lacan and Sylvia Maklès-Bataille. * 15 December Lacan and Marie-Louise Blondin are officially divorced.>
==1944==
==1946==
* 9 August divorce of Sylvia Maklès and Georges Bataille.
==1947==
===1952==-=
* Seminar on Freud’s case of the Rat Man.
* Lacan gives a seminar on Freud's Rat-Man case.
==1953==
* 20 January Lacan is elected president of the Société psychanalytique de Paris.
* 16 June Lacan resigns as president of the Société psychanalytique de Paris. Creation of the Société française de psychanalyse (SFP) by Daniel Lagache, Françoise Dolto, and Juliette Boutonnier. Soon after, Lacan joins the SFP.
* July The members of the SFP learn that they have been excluded from the International Psycho-Analytical Association. Introduced by Lagache, Lacan gives the opening lecture at the SFP on the three registers of the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real.
* There is a [[split]] in the [[SPP]] over the question of [[lay analysis]]. [[Lacan]] resigns his membership of the [[SPP]] and joins the [[Societe Francaise de Psychanalyse]] ([[SFP]]).
*Delivers the important paper "the function of language in psychoanalyse." Often called the "Rome report," this is the founding statement of the view that psychoanalysis is a theory of the speaking subject. Psychoanalysis is now increasingly seen as a linguistic science in close touch with structural anthropology and mathematics.
* Lacan opens the inaugural meeting of the SFP on the 8 July, where he delivers a lecture on 'the symbolic, the imaginary and the real'.
* He is informed by letter that his membership of the IPA
has lapsed as a result of his resignation from the SPP. In September
Lacan attends the sixteenth Conference of Psychoanalysts of the Romance Languages in Rome; the paper he writes for the occasion ('The function and field of speech and language in psychoanalysis') is too long to be read aloud and is distributed to participants instead.
* In his project for the statutes of the S.P.P. Lacan organizes the curriculum around four types of seminars: commentaries of the official texts (particularly Freud's), courses on controlled technique, clinical and phenomenological critique, and child analysis. A large amount of freedom of choice is left to students in training. In January Lacan is elected President of the S.P.P. Six months later he resigns to join the Société Française de Psychanalyse (S.F.P.) with D. Lagache, F. Dolto, J. Favez-Boutonier among others. (At S.F.P.'s first meeting, Lacan lectures on "Le Symbolique, l'Imaginaire et le Réel"). Nevertheless the S.F.P. is allowed to be present in Rome where Lacan delivers his report: "Fonction et champ de la parole et du langage," discourse in which, for once, remarks Lagache with humor, "he is in no way Mallarmean." On July 17 he marries Sylvia Maklès, mother of Judith. That Fall Lacan starts his seminars at the Hôpital Sainte-Anne.
* ''The Neurotic's Individual Myth: Psychoanalytic Quarterly'', 1979.
* July the members of the SFP are informed that they do not belong to the IPA anymore.
* 8 July Lacan gives the opening lecture at the SFP on the symbolic, the imaginary and the real.
;17 July, 1953
: [[Lacan]] and [[Sylvia Maklès]] are [[Jacques Lacan:Family|married]].
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* 17 July marriage of Lacan and Sylvia Maklès.
* 26 September 17 July Lacan delivers and Sylvia Maklès are married. : [[Lacan]] marries Sylvia Bataille and becomes president of the SPP. --> ;November, 1953: [[Lacan]] begins his ‘Rome Discourse’[[Seminar|first public seminar]] ([[Seminar I|on Freud's papers on technique]]) in the [[Hôpital Sainte-Anne]]. These [[seminars]], ‘The Function and Field of Speech and Language which will continue for twenty-seven years, soon become the principal platform for [[Lacan]]'s teaching.<!--* In November [[Lacan]] begins his first public seminar in Psychoanalysis’the Hôpital Sainte-Anne. These seminars, which will continue for twenty-seven years, soon become the principal platform for Lacan's teaching.* [[Lacan]] holds his [[Seminar|first public seminar]] ([[Seminar I|on Freud's papers on technique]]). These [[seminars]] continue for twenty-six years.
* 18 November Lacan starts his first public seminar at Sainte-Anne Hospital with a series of lectures on Freud’s papers on technique. The public seminars will be held until June 1980. Simultaneously, Lacan conducts weekly clinical presentations at Sainte-Anne Hospital.
* 18 November Lacan starts his public seminar at Sainte-Anne hospital with a close reading of Freud's papers on technique (later S I). He also conducts weekly clinical presentations of patients.
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;26 September, 1953
: Following the 16th Conference of Romance Language Psychoanalysts, [[Lacan]] delivers his "[[Rome Discourse]]" ("[[Rome Report]]"): "[[The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis]]" ([[France]]).
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* 26 September Lacan delivers his ‘Rome Discourse’, ‘The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis’.
* September 26-27 - Following the 16th Conference of Romance Language Psychoanalysts, Jacques Lacan gives his "Rome Report": "Function and Range of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis" (France)
* 26 September In his “Rome discourse, ” Lacan presents “Function and field of speech and language in psychoanalysis” (E/S, pp. 30–113, original talk in AE, pp. 133–64), a veritable manifesto. In this pyrotechnical display showing all the facets of his culture, Lacan introduces the doctrine of the signifier. Among many crucial theoretical pronouncements, the “Rome discourse” justifies the practice of the variable-length session. Françoise Dolto speaks after Lacan and Lagache and expresses her support for the new movement. -->
==1954==
:The [[SFP]] renews its request for affiliation to the [[International Psycho-Analytical Association]] ([[IPA]]), which nominates a committee to investigate the issue.
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* ''[[Seminar VI|Le séminaire, Livre VI: Le désir et son interpretation]]'', unpublished.
==1960==
<!-- * In his ''Ethics'' Lacan defines the true ethical foundations of psychoanalysis and constructs an ethics for our time, an ethics that would prove to be equal to the tragedy of modern man and to the "discontent of civilization" (Freud). At the roots of the ethics is desire: analysis' only promise is austere, it is the entrance-into-the-I, ''l'entrée-en-Je''. "I must come to the place where the id was," where the analysand discovers, in its absolute nakedness, the truth of his desire. The end of psychoanalysis entails "the purification of desire." This text functions throughout the years as the background of Lacan's work.-->* ''[[Seminar VII|Le séminaire, Livre VII: L'éthique de la psychanalyse]]'', Paris: Seuil, 1986. ''[[Seminar VII|The Seminar, Book VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-60]]'', New York: Norton, 1992.<!-- * 15 October Death of Lacan’s father.-->
==1960==
* Publishes first book: ''Escrits''. The project of publishing Lacan's twenty-five annual semianrs is undertaken by his son-in-law and director of his school, Jacques-Alain Miller. There is increasing interest in his work in France and abroad.
* Lacan wants to continue to train analysts, his first priority. Yet, at the same time, his teaching is adressed to the non analysts, and thus he raises these questions: Is psychoanalysis a science? Under what conditions is it a science? If it is-the "science of the unconscious" or a "conjectural science of the subject"-what can it, in turn, teach us about science? Cahiers pour l'Analyse, the journal of the Cercle d'Epistémologie at the E.N.S. is founded by Alain Grosrichard, Alain Badiou, Jean-Claude Milner, François Regnault and Jacques-Alain Miller among others. It publishes texts by Lacan in three of its issues that very year. In July Judith Lacan marries Jacques-Alain Miller.
* '''November''' :''[[Écrits]]'', Paris: Seuil, 1966. [[Écrits, : A Selection]], New York: Norton, 1977. The French version immediately became a best-seller and draws considerable public attention to the école far beyond the intelligentsia.* ''Le séminaireLacan sends a copy to Heidegger. Surprisingly, Livre XIII: L'objet de la psychanalyse'', unpublishedthe thick (924 pages) book sells very well.
* January first issue of the journal Cahiers pour I ‘analyse.
* February-March Lacan presents six lectures in the US on the topic of ‘desire and demand’, organized by Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) (Columbia University, MIT, Harvard University, The University of Detroit, The University of Michigan, The University of Chicago).
* 18-21 October Lacan attends an international symposium at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD on ‘The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man’, where he presents ‘Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to Any Subject Whatever’.
* November publication of Ecrits. Lacan sends a copy to Heidegger. '''December'''* December marriage :Marriage of [[Judith Miller|Judith Lacan ]] and [[Jacques-Alain Miller]].<!-- * January First issue of the Cahiers pour l'analyse, a review produced by younger epistemologists of the Ecole normale supérieure who publish serious articles on Lacan's concepts. -->* '''February–March ''':[[Lacan ]] gives a series of lectures at six North American universities, including Columbia, Harvard, and MIT. <!-- * 18–21 October Lacan attends an international symposium entitled “The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man” at Johns Hopkins University. He participates actively in the debate on Structuralism and presents his paper “Of structure as an inmixing of an Otherness prerequisite to any subject whatever.” In a text as dense as its title, Lacan quotes Frege and Russell, explaining that his motto that the unconscious is “structured as a language” is in fact a tautology, since “structured” and “as a language” are synonymous. He states memorably: “The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.” --> * November Publication of Ecrits. Surprisingly''[[Seminar XIII|Le séminaire, Livre XIII: L'objet de la psychanalyse]]'', the thick (924 pages) book sells very wellunpublished. December Marriage of Judith Lacan and Jacques-Alain Miller.* Écrits by Jacques Lacan published (France)
==1967==
<!-- * Introduction of the highly controversial ''la passe'' which marks the transition from analysand to analyst. Lacan sees the decision to become na analyst as analogous to the act of becoming a poet.* [[Lacan ]] states in the ''[[Acte de Fondation]]'' that he shall undertake the direction of the école during the four years, "a direction about which nothing at present prevents me from answering." In fact Lacan remains its director until the dissolution in 1980. He divides the école into three sections: the section of pure psychoanalysis (training and elaboration of the theory, where members who have been analyzed but haven't become analysts can participate); the section for applied psychoanalysis (therapeutic and clinical, physicians who have neither completed nor started analysis are welcome); the section for taking inventory of the Freudian field (it concerns the critique of psychoanalytic literature and the analysis of the theoretical relations with related or affiliated sciences). To join the école, the candidate has to apply to an organized work-group: the [[cartel]].-->* "[[Proposition du 9 octobre 1967 sur le psychanalyste à l'Ecole]]," ''[[Scilicet ]]'' 1.* ''[[Seminar XIV|Le séminaire, Livre XIV: La logique du fantasme]]'', unpublished* '''9 October ''':[[Lacan ]] proposes the procedure of the [[pass ]] as a means to verify the [[end of analysis ]] and to recruit new ‘analysts [[analyst]]s of the school’[[school]].<!-- * 9 October Lacan launches the new procedure of the “pass” (la passe) as a final examination allowing one to become a training analyst in his school.* October 9 - Jacques Lacan proposes under the name "la passe" an enabling process adapted to the Freudian School of Paris (France). * Introduction of the highly controversial ''la passe'' which marks the transition from analysand to analyst. Lacan sees the decision to become na analyst as analogous to the act of becoming a poet. -->
==1968==
* Student uprising in Paris, the 'May events'. The publication of the first issue of the official journal of the Freudian School, ''Scilicet''.<!-- * The novelty of the proposition of 1967 lies in the modification of access to the title of Analyst of the Ecole (A.E.), a rank superior to that of Member Analyst of the Ecole (A.M.E.). The analysts appointed as A.E. are those who have volunteered for the passe and have come victorious out of the trial. The ''passe'' consists of testifying, in front of two passeurs, 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 analysts (generally analysts of the école) and should be at the same stage in their analytic experience as the passant. They listen to him and then, in turn, they testify to what thay have heard in front of a committee for approval composed of the director, Lacan, and of some A.E. This committee's function is to select the analysts of the école and to elaborate, after the selecting process, a "work of doctrine."-->* ''Le séminaire, Livre XV: L'acte psychanalytiqueAutumn''', unpublished.* Autumn publication of the first issue of the journal Scilicet.* December opening of the Department of Psychoanalysis at the Centre Experimental Universitaire de Vincennes. Serge Leclaire is appointed director of the department.* Autumn :Publication of the first issue of ''[[Scilicet]]'', a journal whose motto is “You "You can know what the Ecole freudienne de Paris thinks” thinks" and in which all articles are unsigned except [[Lacan]]'s. <!-- The publication of the first issue of the official journal of the Freudian School, ''Scilicet''. -->* '''December ''':The department of [[psychoanalysis ]] is created at the [[University of Vincennes ]] (Centre Experimental Universitaire de Vincennes) (later Paris VIII) with Serge Leclaire as its director.* ''[[Seminar XV|Le séminaire, Livre XV: L'acte psychanalytique]]'', unpublished.<!-- Serge Leclaire is appointed director of the department. -->
==1969==
<!-- * The issue of the [[passe ]] keeps invading the E.F.P.'s life. "Le quatrième groupe" is formed around those who resign from the E.F.P. disputing over Lacan's methods for the analysts' training and accreditation. Lacan takes a stand in the crisis of the university that follows May 1968: "If psychoanalysis cannot be articulated as a knowledge and taught as such, it has no place in the university, where it is only a matter of knowledge." The E.N.S. director, Flacelière, finds an excuse to tell Lacan that he is no longer welcome at the E.N.S. at the beginning of the academic year. Moreover, ''Cahiers pour l'Analyse'' has to stop its publication, but Vincennes appears as an alternative. Michel Foucault asks [[Lacan ]] to create and direct at Vincennes the Department of Psychoanalysis. Lacan suggests that S. Leclaire, rather than himself, should undertake the project. Classes start in January. Thanks to Lévi-Strauss Lacan moves his seminars to the law school at the [[Panthéon]].-->* ''[[Seminar XVI|Le séminaire, Livre XVI: D'un Autre à l'autre]]'', unpublished. In there Lacan argues that "the Name-of-the-Father is a rift that remains wide open in my discourse, it is only known through an act of faith: there is no incarnation in the place of the Other."* '''January ''':lectures in the Department of Psychoanalysis commence.* '''March ''':the introduction of the pass provokes a schism within the [[EFP]], leading to the creation of the [[Organisation Psychanalytique de Langue Française ]] ([[OPLF]]).* '''November ''':[[Lacan ]] moves his seminar to the Faculté de Droit (Place du Panthéon) in Paris.* '''March ''':The introduction of the practice of the “pass” “[[pass]]” as a sort of final examination provokes a rebellion at the [[Ecole freudienne de Paris ]] and a splinter group is created by Lacanian “barons” such as François Périer and Piera Aulagnier. * '''November ''':Having been forced to leave the Ecole normale supérieure, [[Lacan ]] now holds his weekly seminar at the law faculty on the place du Panthéon. It draws even bigger crowds.
==1970==
<!-- * In his seminar ''L'envers de la psychanalyse'' Lacan establishes the four discourses: Master's, university's, hysteric's and the analyst's discourse. He discusses the Father of ''Totem and Taboo'' who is all love (or ''jouissance'') and whose murder generates the love of the dead Father, a figure to whom he opposes both the Father presiding over the first idealization and the Father who enters the discourse of the Master and who is castrated from the origin. "The death of the father is the key to supreme ''jouissance'', later identified with the mother as the aim to incest." Yet psychoanalysis is not constructed on the proposition'to sleep with the mother' but on the death of the father as primal jouissance. The real father is not the biological one but he who upholds "the Real as impossible." In "Radiophonie," ''Scilicet2/3'', Lacan argues that "if language is the condition of the unconscious, the unconscious is the condition of linguistics." Freud anticipated Saussure and the Prague Circle by sticking to the letter of the patient's word, to jokes, to slips, by bringing into light the importance of condensation and displacement in the production of dreams. The unconscious states that "the subject is not the one who knows what he says." Whoever articulates the unconscious must say that it is either that or nothing.-->* ''[[Seminar XVII|Le séminaire, Livre XVII: L'envers de la psychanalyse]]'', Paris: Seuil, 1991.* '''September ''':Leclaire resigns as director of the Department of Psychoanalysisof Paris VIII, and is succeeded by Jean Clavreul.<!-- * September Leclaire resigns as head of the department of psychoanalysis of Paris VIII and Jean Clavreul replaces him.-->
==1971==
<!-- * One novelty in Lacan's teaching is his return to the hysteric with Dora and ''la Belle Bouche erre'' (the Beautiful Mouth wanders and an allusion to the beautiful butcher's wife analyzed by Freud and carried on in ''La direction de la cure'' Three questions: the relation betwen ''jouissance'' and the desire for unfulfilled desire; the hysteric who 'makes the man' (or the Master) insofar as she constructs him as "a man prompted by the desire to know;" a new conception of the analytic treatment as a "hysterization of discourse."-->* ''[[Seminar XVIII|Le séminaire, Livre XVIII: D'un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant]]'', unpublished.
==1972==
<!-- * As to Lacan "in psychoanalysis (as well as in the unconscious) man knows nothing of woman, and woman nothing of man. The pahallus epitomizes the point in myth where the sexual becomes the passion of the signifier." For him the structure is the body of the symbolic: "there is no sexual rapport, implies no sexual rapport that can be formulated in the structure." There is "no appropiate signifier to give substance to a formula of sexual rapport."-->* '''9 February''':[[Lacan]] introduces the [[Borromean knot]] during his [[seminar]], and starts pondering ways in which three interlocking circles can be tied together.* "''[[L'étourdit]]''" ''[[Scilicet]]'' 4.* ''[[Seminar XIX|Le séminaire, Livre XIX: ... ou pire]]'', unpublished.* 9 February Lacan introduces the Borromean knot during his seminar, and starts pondering ways in which three interlocking circles can be tied together.
==1973==
* In ''[[Encore]]'' [[Lacan]] argues that woman would only enter in the sexual rapport ''quoad matrem'' (as a mother) and man ''quoad castrationem'' (phallic ''[[jouissance]]''). Hence there is no real rapport and love as well as speech make up for his absence. And he adds:
In ''[[Le savoir psychanalytique]]'' from 1972, Lacan argues:
<blockquote>"I am not saying that speech exists because there is no sexual rapport. I am not saying either that there is no sexual rapport because speech is there. But there is no sexual rapport because speech functions on that level that analytic discourse reveals to be specific to speaking human beings. The importance, the preeminence of what makes sex a semblance, the semblance of men and women. Between man and love, there is woman; between man and woman, there is a world; betwen man and the world, there is a wall. What is at stake in a serious love relationship between a man and a woman is castration. Castration is the means of adaptation to survival."</blockquote>
* ''[[Seminar XX|Le séminaire, Livre XX: Encore, Paris: Seuil, 1975]]''. ''[[Seminar XX|The Seminar, Book XX: On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge: Encore]]'', New York: Norton, 1998.
* Publication of [[Seminar XI|Seminar XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis]] in French, transcribed and edited by [[Jacques-Alain Miller]].
* '''30 May'''
:Death of [[Caroline Lacan-Roger]] in a road accident.
* Publication of Seminar XI, the first of a series edited by [[Jacques-Alain Miller]], at Editions du Seuil.
* '''March'''
:Prodded by a growing number of feminists among his students, [[Lacan]] introduces in his seminar the "formulas of sexuation," which demonstrate that sexuality is not determined by biology, since another, so-called "feminine" position (i.e. not determined by the phallus) is also available to all speaking subjects next to the phallic law giving access to universality.
==1974==
==1975==
* '''November'''-'''December''':[[Lacan ]] travels to the [[United States ]] where he lectures at Columbia University (Auditorium, School of International Affairs, 1 December), general discussion at Yale University (Kanzer Seminar and Law School Auditorium, 24-25 November) followed by another general discussion at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.* ''Le séminaire, Livre XXII: R.S.I. in Ornicar?'' 2.* First issue of the journal Ornicar?.* 16 June Lacan opens the 5th International James Joyce Symposium in Paris.* November-December lecture tour in the US (Yale University 24-25 November; Columbia University 1 December; MIT 2 December 1975).* First issue of the journal ''[[Ornicar? ]]''. It publishes Lacanian articles and the texts of some [[seminars]]. * '''16 June ''':Invited by Jacques Aubert, [[Lacan ]] gives the opening lecture at the Paris 5th International James Joyce Symposiumin Paris. He proposes the idea of “Joyce "[[Joyce le sinthome]]." * ''[[Seminar XXII|Le séminaire, Livre XXII: R.” November–December Second lecture tour S.I.]] in the United States. Lacan goes to Yale, Columbia, and MIT, where he has discussions with Quine and Chomsky[[Ornicar?]]'' 2.
==1976==
<!-- * Lacan posits that the notion of structure does not allow to create a common field uniting linguistics, ethnology and psychoanalysis. Linguistics has no hold over the unconscious because "it leaves as a blank that which produces effects in the unconscious: the ''objet a'', the very focus of the analytical act, and of any act. "Only the discourse that is defined in the terms of psychoanalysis manifests the subject as other giving him the key to his division, whereas science, by making the subject a master, conceals him to the extent the the desire that gives way to him bars him from me without remedy." There is only one myth in Lacan's discourse: the Freudian Oedipus complex.-->* ''[[Seminar XXIII|Le séminaire, Livre XXIII: Le sinthome]], in [[Ornicar?]]'' 6.
==1977==
==1978==
* '''5 January ''':[[Jacques Lacan|Lacan]] unilaterally announces the dissolution of the ''[[Ecole Freudienne de Paris]]'' ([[EFP]]).
* October [[Jacques Lacan|Lacan]] establishes the ''[[Cause freudienne]]''.
* ''[[Seminar XXV|Le séminaire, Livre XXV: Le moment de conclure]]''
==1980==
<!-- * On January 9, Lacan announces the dissolution of the EFP in a letter addressed to members and published in ''Le Monde''. He asks those who wish to continue working with him to state their intentions in writing. He receives over one thousand letters within a week. On February 21, Lacan announces the founding of "''La Cause freudienne''." In July he attends an international conference in Caracas. "I have come here before launching my ''Cause freudienne''. It is up to you to be Lacanians if you wish; I am Freudian."* ''Le séminaire, Livre XXVII: Dissolution, in Ornicar?'' 20/21.* January Lacan dissolves the Ecole freudienne de Paris by a “Letter of Dissolution” mailed to all members and dated 5 January 1980. It presents Lacan as a “père sévère” (strict father) who can “persévérer” (persevere) alone. All the members of the school are invited to write a letter directly to him if they want to follow him in the creation of a new institution. He mentions the price Freud has “had to pay for having permitted the psychoanalytic group to win over discourse, becoming a church” (T, p. 130). The Cause freudienne is created. -->*''12–15 July '':[[Lacan ]] presides at the first International Conference of the Fondation du champ freudien in Caracas. October Creation of the Ecole de la cause freudienne.* ''[[Seminar XXVII|Le séminaire, Livre XXVII: Dissolution]], in [[Ornicar?]]'' 20/21.
==1981==
* '''September 9, ''':[[Jacques Lacan|Lacan]] dies in [[Paris]] at the age of eighty, from complications of cancer of the colon. He is buried at Guitrancourt.
==1983==
* Death of [[Marie-Louise Blondin]].
<!-- ==1985==--><!-- * Twenty psychoanalytic organizations exist in France, nineteen of which have their roots in Lacan’s teachings.--><!-- * [[Jacques-Alain Miller ]] wins a legal battle over the rights to edit and publish Lacan’s seminars.--><!-- * [[Jacques-Alain Miller ]] wins a legal battle confirming his rights as editor of Lacan's Seminars and sole literary executor. Twenty years after Lacan's death, France has the highest ratio of psychoanalysts per capita in the world, with some five thousand analysts. There are more than twenty psychoanalytic associations in France, at least fifteen of which are Lacanian in their inspiration.-->
<!-- ==1986==--><!-- * Death of Laurence Bataille.--><!-- --><!-- ==1993==--><!-- * Death of Sylvia Maklès-Lacan.--><!-- --><!-- ==1994==--><!-- * Death of Marc-François Lacan. -->
