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. — 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
