Jacques Lacan Quotes

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

Jacques Lacan

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• I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • War
  • Fall
  • End

• Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Done
  • Community
  • Comedy

• Nothing recedes like progress.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Like
  • Progress
  • Nothing

• Everyone in the United States asks me about being a woman CEO. To be honest, it has had no impact on my career. While I was at BCG, it didn't matter whether you were a man or a woman. The only thing that mattered was that you were good at your job.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Good
  • Job
  • Career

• Fate will not be confined by paragraphs.

  

  Alfred Rosenberg
  • Fate

• I've had several unavoidable problems because of my athletic career.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Career

• I am obsessed by people. Usually I try to get the girl out of the model instead of the model out of the girl.

  

  Mario Testino
  • People
  • Girl
  • Model

• There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.

  

  Jerome Bruner
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• Making a movie is such a huge commitment of emotion and time that I didn't want to be beholden to doing it for money.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • Time
  • Money
  • Movie

• Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Men
  • Black
  • Strong

• When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

  

  Allen Klein
  • Attention

• If you get all tangled up, just tango on.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Up
  • Tangled
  • Tango

• There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"

  

  Farah Pahlavi
  • People
  • Why

• Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent of African-American or Latino kids dropping out of high school, it doesn't really matter what you do in terms of affirmative action. Those kids aren't going to college.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • School
  • Kids

• It continues to be my strong belief that the way we are going to make sure that everybody feels a part of this global economy is not by shutting ourselves off from each other, even if we could, but rather by working together more effectively than we have in the past.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Together
  • Past
  • Strong

• Aren't you scared your kid's getting kidnapped...RIGHT NOW?

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Kids
  • Kidnapped

• Egypt has responded to hundreds of thousands of protesters by shutting down the Internet. Just a word of advice: If you want people to stay at home and do nothing, you should turn the Internet back on.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Home
  • Advice

• The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Meaning
  • Speech
  • Motive

• My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

  

  Neil Oliver
  • Work
  • Make
  • Happen

• I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.

  

  William H. Wharton
  • Suffering
  • Danger
  • Redemption

• Her honor will come to no harm at my hands,” Jack said. “’Tis not her honor but her tender heart that I worry about,” Alexander said. “She’s a delicate lass,” Hugh added. “Aye,” said Gregor. “A Scottish rose.” “Your tender, delicate rose had me ambushed, knocked unconscious, and forced to wed,” Jack ground out. “Facts you all know, if you’ve spoken to Hamish.” Dougal grinned, his teeth flashing whitely. “She has the devil’s own temper, our Fiona does.

  

  Karen Hawkins
  • Heart
  • Facts
  • Rose

• Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Guilty

• The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Unconscious
  • Discourse