Editing Jacques Lacan (section)

===Early life===
Lacan was born in [[Paris]], the eldest of Émilie and Alfred Lacan's three children. His father was a successful soap and oils salesman. His mother was ardently [[Catholic]] – his younger brother entered a monastery in 1929. Lacan attended the [[Collège Stanislas de Paris]] between 1907 and 1918. An interest in philosophy led him to a preoccupation with the work of [[Spinoza]], one outcome of which was his abandonment of religious faith for [[atheism]]. There were tensions in the family around this issue, and he regretted not persuading his brother to take a different path, but by 1924 his parents had moved to [[Boulogne]] and he was living in rooms in [[Montmartre]].<ref name="Jacques Lacan & Co">{{cite book | last1=Roudinesco | first1=E. | last2=Mehlman | first2=J. | last3=Lacan | first3=J. | title=Jacques Lacan & Co: A History of Psychoanalysis in France, 1925–1985 | publisher=University of Chicago Press | year=1990 | isbn=978-0-226-72997-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mmBIght4dVgC | access-date=28 November 2021}}</ref>{{rp|104}}

During the early 1920s, Lacan actively engaged with the Parisian literary and artistic [[avant-garde]]. Having met [[James Joyce]], he was present at the Parisian bookshop where the first readings of passages from ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' in French and English took place, shortly before it was published in 1922.<ref>Catherine Millot ''Life with Lacan'', Cambridge: Polity Press 2018, p. 104.</ref> He also had meetings with [[Charles Maurras]], whom he admired as a literary stylist, and he occasionally attended meetings of [[Action Française]] (of which Maurras was a leading ideologue),<ref name="Jacques Lacan & Co" />{{rp|104}} of which he would later be highly critical.

In 1920, after being rejected for military service on the grounds that he was too thin, Lacan entered medical school. Between 1927 and 1931, after completing his studies at the faculty of medicine of the [[University of Paris]], he specialised in psychiatry under the direction of [[Henri Claude]] at the [[Sainte-Anne Hospital Center|Sainte-Anne Hospital]], the major psychiatric hospital serving central Paris, at the Infirmary for the Insane of the Police Prefecture under [[Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault]] and also at the Hospital Henri-Rousselle.<ref name=Macey1988>{{cite book |last =Macey| first =David| title =Lacan in Contexts| publisher =Verso | date =1988 | location = London| isbn =978-0860919421 }}</ref>{{rp|211}}