Editing Jacques Lacan (section)

===1940s===
The SPP was disbanded due to [[German occupation of France during World War II|Nazi Germany's occupation of France]] in 1940. Lacan was called up for military service which he undertook in periods of duty at the [[Val-de-Grâce|Val-de-Grâce military hospital]] in Paris, whilst at the same time continuing his private psychoanalytic practice. In 1942 he moved into apartments at 5 rue de Lille, which he would occupy until his death. During the war he did not publish any work, turning instead to a study of [[Chinese language|Chinese]] for which he obtained a degree from the [[Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales|École spéciale des langues orientales]].<ref name="Jacques Lacan & Co" />{{rp|147}}<ref>{{cite journal|title=Lacan's Oriental Language of the Unconscious|first=Richard|last=Serrano|date=22 May 1997|journal=SubStance|volume=26|issue=3|pages=90–106|doi=10.2307/3685596|jstor=3685596}}</ref>

In a relationship they formed before the war, [[Sylvia Bataille]] (née Maklès), the estranged wife of his friend [[Georges Bataille]], became Lacan's mistress and, in 1953, his second wife. During the war their relationship was complicated by the threat of deportation for Sylvia, who was Jewish, since this required her to live in the unoccupied territories. Lacan intervened personally with the authorities to obtain papers detailing her family origins, which he destroyed. In 1941 they had a child, [[Judith Miller (philosopher)|Judith]]. She kept the name Bataille because Lacan wished to delay the announcement of his divorce until after the war.<ref name="Jacques Lacan & Co" />{{rp|147}}

After the war, the SPP recommenced their meetings. In 1945 Lacan visited England for a five-week study trip, where he met the British analysts [[Ernest Jones]], [[Wilfred Bion]] and John Rickman. Bion's analytic work with groups influenced Lacan, contributing to his own subsequent emphasis on study groups as a structure within which to advance theoretical work in psychoanalysis. He published a report of his visit as 'La Psychiatrique anglaise et la guerre' (''Evolution psychiatrique'' 1, 1947, pp. &nbsp;293–318).

In 1949, Lacan presented a new paper on the [[mirror stage]], 'The Mirror-Stage, as Formative of the I, as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience', to the sixteenth [[International Psychoanalytical Association|IPA]] congress in Zurich. The same year he set out in the ''Doctrine de la Commission de l'Enseignement,'' produced for the Training Commission of the SPP, the protocols for the training of candidates.<ref name=Macey1988 />{{rp|220–221}}