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Inspirational Quotes by Jacques Lacan
- The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.
- The I is always in the field of the Other.
- Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.
- 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…
- The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.
- The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.
- The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom
- 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…
- I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.
- 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;…
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento