Talk:Jacques Lacan:Chronology

The father is overseeing a prosperous food business that his family started a century earlier with a reputed vinegar company, expanding later into the commerce of pickled goods, mustard, brandy, rum, and coffee. He is educated at the Collège Stanislas, a Jesuit school. He has a sister, Magdeleine-Marie and a younger brother Marc-Marie, who later becomes a Benedictine at the abbey of Hautecombe. After his baccalauréat he studies medicine and later psychiatry.

• After attending a well-known Jesuit school - he was raised a Catholic but did not practise Catholicism - he studies medicine and then psychiatry.