When was Jacques Lacan born and where did he grow up?
Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was born on the 13th of April 1901 in Paris. He attended the Catholic Collège Stanislas de Paris between 1907 and 1918 before entering medical school.
Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was born on the 13th of April 1901 in Paris. He attended the Catholic Collège Stanislas de Paris between 1907 and 1918 before entering medical school.
The Mirror Phase describes a moment at six months old when an infant recognizes itself in a mirror prior to attaining control over bodily movements. This experience creates rivalry between the subject and the image because the wholeness of the reflection threatens the child with fragmentation.
Jacques Lacan formed his own institution known as the École Freudienne de Paris or EFP on the 21st of June 1964 after being stripped of the right to conduct training analyses. The International Psychoanalytical Association set conditions that registration depended upon removing him from the list of SFP analysts.
Jacques Lacan reduced the standard fifty-minute analytic hour to Delphic seven or eight minutes or sometimes even to a single oracular parole murmured in the waiting room. These variable-length sessions lasted anywhere from a few seconds to several hours depending on what the analyst deemed appropriate.
Jacques Lacan considered psychic functions to occur within a universal matrix composed of three properties: the Real, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic. He eventually added a fourth component called the sinthome to this framework.