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In 1932 he finished his doctoral thesis on paranoia, translated Freud’s paper on jealousy, paranoia and homosexuality into French, and started his analysis with Rudolph Loewenstein.

[[Lacan]]'s original training was in medicine and psychiatry, and his prepsychoanalytic work was on [[paranoia]].

The association with surrealim is les surprising htna it might seem; the surrealists, to Freud's irration, wer much more sympathetic to his ideas than the French medical establishment.

[[Lacan]]s began his [[analysis]] with [[Rudolph Loewenstein]] in 1934, and was elected to the [[SPP]] in the same year.

The paper of [[language]] and [[speech]] in [[psychoanalysis]] (1953) read to the founding congress of the [[SFP]] in Rome in 1953 (and therefore often referred to as the "Rome Discourse") is the first great manifesto of [[Lacanian psychoanalysis]].

[[Lèvi-Strauss]]'s accounts of the non-conscious structures of kinship and alliance, and of the crucial transition from [[nature]] to [[culture]], allow [[Lacan]] to describe the [[Oedipus complex]] as a structural moment that integrates the [[child]] into a preexisting [[symbolic order]] by obliging it to recognize the [[Name-of-the-Father]] and to abandon its claim to being the sole object of the [[mother]]'s [[desire]] ([[phallus]]).

Although the 1953 paper abounds in reference to [[language]] and [[linguistics]], it is only in his paper on the aency of the letter (1957) that [[Lacan]] truly begins to explore and appropriate the legacy of [[Saussure]].

An element of stability is, he argues, provided by privileged signifiers such as the [[phallus]] and the [[Name-of-the-Father]], and it is this claim that exposes him to [[Derrida]]'s accusations of [[logocentrism]] and [[phallogocentrism]].

[[Lacan]]'s early use of [[linguistics]] anticipates a distinctive feature of his later work in that he makes use of quasi-mathematical formulae to illustrate the workings of [[metaphor]] and [[metonymy]].

The initial formulae are no doubt little more than pedagogic devises, but they gradually develop into a so-called [[Lacanian]] [[algebra]] and a set of [[amthemes]] designed to ensure that [[psychoanalytic theory]] can be subjected to a [[formalization]] and to guarantee its integral transmission.