...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. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible. — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters. — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it. — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence. — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning. — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
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… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
