Jacques Lacan Quotes
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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, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.
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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.
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For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
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But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.
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The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom.
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I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.
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Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension.
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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.
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The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.
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Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
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All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.
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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, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.
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The father, the Name-of-the-father, sustains the structure of desire with the structure of the law- but the inheritance of the father is that which Kierkegaard designates for us, namely, his sin.
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The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.
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The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.
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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.
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The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.
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The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.
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Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.
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The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.
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Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.
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The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.
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We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.
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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.