Brief Biography of Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) : 1986 : Bice Benvenuto & Roger Kennedy
Born in Paris, 1901 Medical training in the Paris Medical Faculty. Became Chef de Clinique in 1932. Doctoral thesis for psychiatric degree – ‘Paranoid psychosis in its relation to the personality’ (1932) Associated with the French surrealist movement, from early 1930s. 1934 – Joined the Société 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. [...]