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=====Beginnings in Psychiatry=====
His internship at [[St-Anne hospital]], starting in [[{{Y}}|1926]], and at the [[Infirmerie Spéciale des Aliénés de la Préfecture de Police]], in [[{{Y}}|1928]], gave [[Lacan]] a particular interest in the study of [[paranoia]].
Later he would say that "My only real master in psychiatry was Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault."
[[Lacan]] singled out his concept of "[[mental automatism]]". This brought together many seemingly disparate phnomena of [[madness]] under the common motif of ''something being imposed from 'outside'.'': the echo of thoughts or a commentary on one's actions, for example.
The form of a particular [[psychosis]] would then be determined by how one ''[[signification|made sense]]'' of these elements which lacked an initial content. [[Lacan]] would say that this concept was the closest that contemporary [[France|French]] [[psychiatry]] got to a [[structural analysis]], with its emphasis on the imposition of formal elements beyond the "[[conscious]]" [[control]] of the [[subject]].
