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==1933==
* Lacan publishes (two) articles in the surrealist journal ''Minotaure''. He starts attending KojEve's lectures on Hegel.* Two articles by Lacan are published in the surrealist journal Minotaure. [[Alexandre Kojève ]] begins lecturing on [[Hegel]]'s [[Phenomenology of Spirit ]] at the [[Ecole des Hautes Études]].[[Lacan ]] attends these lectures regularly over the following years.<!-- * Because of his thesis he becomes a specialist in [[paranoia]]. The richness of his text and the multiplicity of its aspects appealed to very different circles, especially the analysis of the case of Aimée make him famous with the Surrealists. Between this year and 1939, he takes Kojève's course at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, an "Introduction to the reading of Hegel." He publishes ''Motifs du crime paranoïque: le crime des soeurs Papin''. Minotaure 3/4.-->* [[Lacan ]] falls in love with [[Marie-Louise Blondin, the sister of his friend Sylvain Blondin (1901-1975)]].* '''October ''':[[Lacan ]] starts attending the seminar on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit by Alexandre Kojève (1902-1968) at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, where he meets Georges Bataille and Raymond Queneau (1903-1976).<!-- * Lacan publishes a sonnet, “Hiatus Irrationalis, ” in Le Phare de Neuilly 3/4. He meets Marie-Louise Blondin, the sister of his friend Sylvain Blondin. October Lacan attends Alexander Kojève's seminar on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit at the Ecole pratique des hautes études. There he meets Georges Bataille and Raymond Queneau, both of whom will remain friends. He publishes “The problem of style and the psychiatric conception of paranoiac forms of experience” and “Motivations of paranoid crime: the crime of the Papin sisters” in the Surrealist journal Le Minotaure 1 and 3/4.-->
==1934==
<!-- * [[Georges Bataille]] and [[Sylvia Maklès]] separate. -->* '''29 January''':[[Lacan, who is already in analysis with Rudolph Loewenstein, joins the SPP as ]] marries [[Marie-Louise Blondin]]. * '''November''':[[Lacan]] becomes a candidate member(''membre adhérent'') of the [[Société psychanalytique de Paris]] ([[SPP]]). <!-- He marries Marie-Louise Blondin in January, who gives birth to their first child, Caroline, the same month.* Lacan enters analysis with Rudolph Lowewnstein and becomes an active member of the SeociEtE Psychanlytique de Paris (SPP).* He is appointed doctor of the Asiles, and marries Marie-Louise Blondin, mother of Caroline, Thibaut and Sibylle. While in analysis with Rudolph Loewenstein, Lacan becomes a member of La Société Psychoanalytique de Paris (SPP). * Lacan, who is already in analysis with Rudolph Loewenstein, joins the SPP as a candidate member. * Lacan enters analysis with Rudolph Lowewnstein and becomes an active member of the SeociEtE Psychanlytique de Paris (SPP). Loewenstein is one of the four training analysts of the S.P.P. His analysis ends in 1939 with Loewenstein's departure to the war.* [[Lacan ]] sees his first private patient.* Georges Bataille and Sylvia Maklès separate.* 29 January Lacan marries Marie-Louise Blondin. * November Lacan becomes a candidate member (membre adhérent) of the SPP.* Lacan sees his first patient. 29 January Marriage with Marie-Louise Blondin. November Lacan becomes a candidate member of the Société psychanalytique de Paris.->
<!-- ==1935== --><!-- * Marc-François Lacan is ordained priest.==1936==* Reads a major papers to the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) on the mirror-stage theory which remains unpublished (the version included in ''Escits'' dates from 1949).* Lacan presents his paper on the mirror stage to the fourteenth congress of the IPA at Marienbad on 3 August. He sets up private practice as a psychoanalyst.->
==1936==
<!-- * Reads a major papers to the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) on the mirror-stage theory which remains unpublished (the version included in ''Escits'' dates from 1949). * 3 August Lacan attends the 14th Congress of the IPA at Marienbad (Máriánské Lézně, Czech Republic), where he presents ‘Le stade du miroir’.* 3 August Lacan attends the 14th congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association at Marienbad, where he presents his paper on the mirror stage. After ten minutes, he is brutally interrupted by Ernest Jones. Quite upset, Lacan leaves the conference. He will never submit his text for publication. -->* '''3 August''':[[Lacan]] presents his paper on the [[mirror stage]] to the fourteenth congress of the [[IPA]] at Marienbad. He sets up private practice as a psychoanalyst.
* Publishes first book: ''Escrits''. The project of publishing Lacan's twenty-five annual semianrs is undertaken by his son-in-law and director of his school, Jacques-Alain Miller. There is increasing interest in his work in France and abroad.
* Lacan wants to continue to train analysts, his first priority. Yet, at the same time, his teaching is adressed to the non analysts, and thus he raises these questions: Is psychoanalysis a science? Under what conditions is it a science? If it is-the "science of the unconscious" or a "conjectural science of the subject"-what can it, in turn, teach us about science? Cahiers pour l'Analyse, the journal of the Cercle d'Epistémologie at the E.N.S. is founded by Alain Grosrichard, Alain Badiou, Jean-Claude Milner, François Regnault and Jacques-Alain Miller among others. It publishes texts by Lacan in three of its issues that very year. In July Judith Lacan marries Jacques-Alain Miller.
* '''November''' :''[[Écrits]]'', Paris: Seuil, 1966. [[Écrits, : A Selection]], New York: Norton, 1977. The French version immediately became a best-seller and draws considerable public attention to the école far beyond the intelligentsia.* ''Le séminaireLacan sends a copy to Heidegger. Surprisingly, Livre XIII: L'objet de la psychanalyse'', unpublishedthe thick (924 pages) book sells very well.
* January first issue of the journal Cahiers pour I ‘analyse.
* February-March Lacan presents six lectures in the US on the topic of ‘desire and demand’, organized by Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) (Columbia University, MIT, Harvard University, The University of Detroit, The University of Michigan, The University of Chicago).
* 18-21 October Lacan attends an international symposium at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD on ‘The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man’, where he presents ‘Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to Any Subject Whatever’.
* November publication of Ecrits. Lacan sends a copy to Heidegger. '''December'''* December marriage :Marriage of [[Judith Miller|Judith Lacan ]] and [[Jacques-Alain Miller]].<!-- * January First issue of the Cahiers pour l'analyse, a review produced by younger epistemologists of the Ecole normale supérieure who publish serious articles on Lacan's concepts. -->* '''February–March ''':[[Lacan ]] gives a series of lectures at six North American universities, including Columbia, Harvard, and MIT. <!-- * 18–21 October Lacan attends an international symposium entitled “The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man” at Johns Hopkins University. He participates actively in the debate on Structuralism and presents his paper “Of structure as an inmixing of an Otherness prerequisite to any subject whatever.” In a text as dense as its title, Lacan quotes Frege and Russell, explaining that his motto that the unconscious is “structured as a language” is in fact a tautology, since “structured” and “as a language” are synonymous. He states memorably: “The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.” --> * November Publication of Ecrits. Surprisingly''[[Seminar XIII|Le séminaire, Livre XIII: L'objet de la psychanalyse]]'', the thick (924 pages) book sells very wellunpublished. December Marriage of Judith Lacan and Jacques-Alain Miller.* Écrits by Jacques Lacan published (France) 
==1967==
<!-- * [[Lacan]] states in the ''[[Acte de Fondation]]'' that he shall undertake the direction of the école during the four years, "a direction about which nothing at present prevents me from answering." In fact Lacan remains its director until the dissolution in 1980. He divides the école into three sections: the section of pure psychoanalysis (training and elaboration of the theory, where members who have been analyzed but haven't become analysts can participate); the section for applied psychoanalysis (therapeutic and clinical, physicians who have neither completed nor started analysis are welcome); the section for taking inventory of the Freudian field (it concerns the critique of psychoanalytic literature and the analysis of the theoretical relations with related or affiliated sciences). To join the école, the candidate has to apply to an organized work-group: the [[cartel]].-->
* "[[Proposition du 9 octobre 1967 sur le psychanalyste à l'Ecole]]," ''[[Scilicet]]'' 1.
* ''[[Seminar XIV|Le séminaire, Livre XIV: La logique du fantasme]]'', unpublished
==1968==
* Student uprising in Paris, the 'May events'.
<!-- * The novelty of the proposition of 1967 lies in the modification of access to the title of Analyst of the Ecole (A.E.), a rank superior to that of Member Analyst of the Ecole (A.M.E.). The analysts appointed as A.E. are those who have volunteered for the passe and have come victorious out of the trial. The ''passe'' consists of testifying, in front of two passeurs, to one's experience as an analysand and especially to the crucial moment of passage from the position of analysand to that of analyst. The ''passeurs'' are chosen by their analysts (generally analysts of the école) and should be at the same stage in their analytic experience as the passant. They listen to him and then, in turn, they testify to what thay have heard in front of a committee for approval composed of the director, Lacan, and of some A.E. This committee's function is to select the analysts of the école and to elaborate, after the selecting process, a "work of doctrine."-->
* '''Autumn'''
:Publication of the first issue of ''[[Scilicet]]'', a journal whose motto is "You can know what the Ecole freudienne de Paris thinks" and in which all articles are unsigned except [[Lacan]]'s.
==1969==
<!-- * The issue of the [[passe]] keeps invading the E.F.P.'s life. "Le quatrième groupe" is formed around those who resign from the E.F.P. disputing over Lacan's methods for the analysts' training and accreditation. Lacan takes a stand in the crisis of the university that follows May 1968: "If psychoanalysis cannot be articulated as a knowledge and taught as such, it has no place in the university, where it is only a matter of knowledge." The E.N.S. director, Flacelière, finds an excuse to tell Lacan that he is no longer welcome at the E.N.S. at the beginning of the academic year. Moreover, ''Cahiers pour l'Analyse'' has to stop its publication, but Vincennes appears as an alternative. Michel Foucault asks [[Lacan]] to create and direct at Vincennes the Department of Psychoanalysis. Lacan suggests that S. Leclaire, rather than himself, should undertake the project. Classes start in January. Thanks to Lévi-Strauss Lacan moves his seminars to the law school at the [[Panthéon]].-->
* ''[[Seminar XVI|Le séminaire, Livre XVI: D'un Autre à l'autre]]'', unpublished. In there Lacan argues that "the Name-of-the-Father is a rift that remains wide open in my discourse, it is only known through an act of faith: there is no incarnation in the place of the Other."
* '''January'''
==1970==
<!-- * In his seminar ''L'envers de la psychanalyse'' Lacan establishes the four discourses: Master's, university's, hysteric's and the analyst's discourse. He discusses the Father of ''Totem and Taboo'' who is all love (or ''jouissance'') and whose murder generates the love of the dead Father, a figure to whom he opposes both the Father presiding over the first idealization and the Father who enters the discourse of the Master and who is castrated from the origin. "The death of the father is the key to supreme ''jouissance'', later identified with the mother as the aim to incest." Yet psychoanalysis is not constructed on the proposition'to sleep with the mother' but on the death of the father as primal jouissance. The real father is not the biological one but he who upholds "the Real as impossible." In "Radiophonie," ''Scilicet2/3'', Lacan argues that "if language is the condition of the unconscious, the unconscious is the condition of linguistics." Freud anticipated Saussure and the Prague Circle by sticking to the letter of the patient's word, to jokes, to slips, by bringing into light the importance of condensation and displacement in the production of dreams. The unconscious states that "the subject is not the one who knows what he says." Whoever articulates the unconscious must say that it is either that or nothing.-->
* ''[[Seminar XVII|Le séminaire, Livre XVII: L'envers de la psychanalyse]]'', Paris: Seuil, 1991.
* '''September'''
==1971==
<!-- * One novelty in Lacan's teaching is his return to the hysteric with Dora and ''la Belle Bouche erre'' (the Beautiful Mouth wanders and an allusion to the beautiful butcher's wife analyzed by Freud and carried on in ''La direction de la cure'' Three questions: the relation betwen ''jouissance'' and the desire for unfulfilled desire; the hysteric who 'makes the man' (or the Master) insofar as she constructs him as "a man prompted by the desire to know;" a new conception of the analytic treatment as a "hysterization of discourse."-->
* ''[[Seminar XVIII|Le séminaire, Livre XVIII: D'un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant]]'', unpublished.
==1978==
* '''5 January ''':[[Jacques Lacan|Lacan]] unilaterally announces the dissolution of the ''[[Ecole Freudienne de Paris]]'' ([[EFP]]).
* October [[Jacques Lacan|Lacan]] establishes the ''[[Cause freudienne]]''.
* ''[[Seminar XXV|Le séminaire, Livre XXV: Le moment de conclure]]''
==1981==
* '''September 9, ''':[[Jacques Lacan|Lacan]] dies in [[Paris]] at the age of eighty, from complications of cancer of the colon. He is buried at Guitrancourt.
==1983==
* Death of [[Marie-Louise Blondin]].
<!-- ==1985==--><!-- * Twenty psychoanalytic organizations exist in France, nineteen of which have their roots in Lacan’s teachings.--><!-- * [[Jacques-Alain Miller ]] wins a legal battle over the rights to edit and publish Lacan’s seminars.--><!-- * [[Jacques-Alain Miller ]] wins a legal battle confirming his rights as editor of Lacan's Seminars and sole literary executor. Twenty years after Lacan's death, France has the highest ratio of psychoanalysts per capita in the world, with some five thousand analysts. There are more than twenty psychoanalytic associations in France, at least fifteen of which are Lacanian in their inspiration.-->
<!-- ==1986== -->
<!-- * Death of Laurence Bataille. -->
<!-- --><!-- ==1993==--><!-- * Death of Sylvia Maklès-Lacan.--><!-- --><!-- ==1994==--><!-- * Death of Marc-François Lacan. -->
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