Jacques Lacan Quotes

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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• There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • Fashion

• Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Light
  • Relationship
  • Green

• It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • History
  • Soul
  • Political

• I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Happy
  • Relationship

• Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Saying

• A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Myself

• If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Teach
  • Meaning
  • Formula

• If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relationship? If I push you and push you, maybe you'll learn to dance, but more likely, that will move you away from me.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Relationship
  • Dance
  • Learn

• There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Age
  • Relationship

• Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Mean
  • Fighting
  • Meaning

• I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Relationship
  • Optimist
  • European

• I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Men
  • Done
  • Relationship

• It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Up
  • Good
  • Relationship

• Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Like
  • Anger

• I have no evidence of any relationship between IRS and NSA.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Relationship
  • Evidence
  • IRS

• Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • God
  • Man
  • Relationship

• It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Important
  • You
  • Relationship

• I'm such a relationship guy. I really am.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Guy
  • Relationship
  • Really

• Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Relationship
  • Nice

• I have a funny relationship with religion. I'm a big believer in ritualistic behavior as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. But I'm not a big fan of rules. And yet, we cannot live in a world without order.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Long
  • Live

• In 2008, when the global financial crisis struck, it was a bad year for a lot of developing countries, and it manifested itself in consumer confidence.

  

  Adi Godrej
  • Bad
  • Confidence
  • Financial

• I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Made
  • Jokes
  • Ems

• After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and looked down upon the Asian continent as backward and inferior. For most of the next 70 years, Japan was at war, mainly with its neighbours.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • War
  • Attitude

• 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
  • Relationship
  • Meaning
  • Signifier