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An outstanding pupil, he excelled in [[religion|religious studies]] and [[Latin]]. As a teenager, [[Jacques Lacan]] developed a passion for [[philosophy]], adorning the walls of his bedroom with a plan of the [[structure]] of [[Spinoza]]'s ''[[Ethics]]'', a text which would always remain dear to him and which he would quote at the start of his [[doctoral dissertation]] in [[medicine]].
=====The Surrealist Movement=====[[Lacan]] took up the study of [[medicine]] in [[{{Y}}|1920]] and specialized in [[psychiatry]] from [[{{Y}}|1926]]. During this period, he was active in the busy [[Paris]]ian world of the writers, artists and intellectuals who made up the [[surrealism|surrealist movement]].
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