Jacques Lacan:Biography
| 1901 | Jacques Lacan born in Paris, the eldest son of prosperous, bourgeois parents. After attending a well-known Jesuit school - he was raised a Catholic but did not practice Catholicism - he studies medicine and then psychiatry. |
| 1927 | Begins his clinical training and then works in several psychiatric hospitals in Paris. |
- Born in Paris, 1901
- 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 a new Societe Fran~aise de Psychanalyse. Formation of 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 methods.
- 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
