“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?”
― Jacques Lacan
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“The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales.."
― Jacques Lacan |
“The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.”
― Jacques Lacan |
“The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.”
― Jacques Lacan |
"..If being were only what it is, there wouldn't even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.”
― Jacques Lacan |
“If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.”
― Jacques Lacan
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“In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.”
― Jacques Lacan
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“What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?”
― Jacques Lacan
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“I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.”
― Jacques Lacan
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“The I is always in the field of the Other.”
― Jacques Lacan
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“Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.”
― Jacques Lacan |
“Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension”
― Jacques Lacan
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“Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.”
― Jacques Lacan
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“Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation..."
― Jacques Lacan |
“I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was.."
― Jacques Lacan
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“The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!”
― Jacques Lacan |
“Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.”
― Jacques Lacan
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“Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.”
― Jacques Lacan
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"when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.”
― Jacques Lacan
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“Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.”
― Jacques Lacan |
“The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.”
― Jacques Lacan |
“The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.”
― Jacques Lacan |
“I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.”
― Jacques Lacan
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“I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.”
― Jacques Lacan |
“Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.”
― Jacques Lacan
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“For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.”
― Jacques Lacan
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“The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.”
― Jacques Lacan
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“The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom”
― Jacques Lacan
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“The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.”
― Jacques Lacan
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“All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.”
― Jacques Lacan
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“The unconscious is structured like a language.”
― Jacques Lacan
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