Jacques Lacan Quotes
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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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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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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 real is what resists symbolization absolutely.
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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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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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Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension.
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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 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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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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If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.
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The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.
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The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.
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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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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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Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.
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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.
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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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What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?