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* Lacan meets [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], [[Maurice Merleau-Ponty]] and [[Pablo Picasso]]. He will remain very close to [[Merleau-ponty|Merleau-Ponty]].

* Lacan presents [[another]] paper on the [[Mirror Stage|mirror stage ]] to the sixteenth IPA congress in Zurich.

* 17 July Lacan attends the 16th congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association in Z ürich. He presents the second version of his paper on [[The Mirror Stage|the mirror stage ]] (E/S, pp. 1–7). In a climate of [[ideological]] war between the British Kleinians and the American “Anna-Freudians” (a clear majority), the French second generation, following the philosophy of Marie Bonaparte, tries to occupy a different [[space]]. Dissident luminaries include [[Daniel Lagache]], Sacha Nacht, and Lacan, often assisted by his friend Françoise Dolto. Lacan dominates the French group and gathers around him brilliant theoreticians such as Wladimir Granoff, Serge Leclaire, and François Perrier. He gives a seminar on Freud's [[Dora]] case.

* July The members of the SFP learn that they have been excluded from the [[International Psycho-analytical Association|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]].

*Delivers the important paper "the [[Function of Language|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]].

* 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|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.

* September 26-27 - Following the 16th Conference of Romance Language Psychoanalysts, [[Jacques lacan|Jacques Lacan ]] gives his "Rome Report": "Function and Range of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis" (France)

* 9 May Lacan presents “The [[agency]] of [[The Letter|the letter ]] in the unconscious; or, Reason since Freud” (E/S, pp. 146–78) to a group of philosophy students at the Sorbonne, later published in La Psychanalyse (1958). Less [[Heideggerian]] and more linguistic, the paper sketches a [[rhetoric]] of the unconscious based on the relationship between signifier and [[signified]] and generates the algorithms of [[metaphor]] and [[metonymy]] corresponding to Freud's [[condensation]] and [[displacement]].

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* Expelled, finally, from the International Psychoanalytic Association Lacan foudns his own school, L'[[Ecole freudienne de paris|Ecole Freudienne de Paris ]] (EFP). His audience begins to [[change]]; there are fewer psychiatrists and more [[philosophers]], anthropologists, linguistics, [[mathematicians]] and [[literary]] critics. Gives Seminar on [[The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis]].

With Lévi-Strauss and [[Althusser]]'s support, he is appointed lecturer at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. He begins his new seminar on "[[The four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis|The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis]]" in January in the Dussane room at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (in his first session he thanks the generosity of Fernand [[Braudel]] and [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]]).

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