Lacan Quotes
- It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would… — Camille Paglia
- If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the… — Judith Butler
- ...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… — Jacques Lacan
- French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go… — Noam Chomsky
- I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past… — Jacques Lacan