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=====Education=====
[[Lacan]] was raised, grew up, in a comfortable middle-class Catholic family in '''Montparnasse, Paris'''.
He attended a prestigious Catholic school, the '''Collège Stanislas'''.<ref>An ambitious student, he excelled in religious studies and Latin.
[[Lacan]] went on to study '''medicine'' and specialized in '''psychiatry''' with a particular interest in '''[[psychosis]]'''.
=====Encounters=====
In 1930, [[Lacan]] read an article in a Surrealist journal by a little-known painter Salvador Dali (1904-89) on 'Paranoia'.
Second, in 1931 he began reading [[Freud]].
These two encounters were to propel [[Lacan]] on a lifelong engagement with - and transformation of - the field of psychoanalysis.
* [[Jacques Lacan:Chronology]]</ref>
