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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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<!-- * 25 December - Birth of Lacan's brother Raymond is born (who dies two years later). -->
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<!-- * 25 December - Birth of Lacan's sister Madeleine(-Marie) is born. -->
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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. -->
<!-- * 25 December Birth of Marc-Marie, Lacan's second brother. -->
==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==
==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 publishes (two) articles 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]].-->
* '''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==
==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==
<!-- * Death of Marc-François Lacan. -->
