Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) was born, lived, and worked in Paris. In the early 1930s, he published his thesis on paranoid psychosis, and shortly thereafter, he was accepted into the French Psychoanalytic Society, where he presented his theory on the so-called "mirror stage." However, his decisive intervention in the psychoanalytic field began in the 1950s with a weekly seminar, which became a hub for training and gathering for many generations of psychoanalysts. In 1964, in response to his expulsion from the International Psychoanalytical Association, Lacan founded the Freudian School of Paris (1964-1980), whose influence extended far beyond French borders. His last institutional initiative, the School of the Freudian Cause (1981), was destined to become the vehicle for the global dissemination of Lacanian orientation. In 1966, Lacan compiled his writings into a substantial volume titled "Écrits." In 2001, "Autres Écrits" was published, including all his later texts. The gradual publication of his seminar began in the early 1970s, transcribed by Jacques-Alain Miller, and continues to this day.