Lacan Quote by Gilles Deleuze

“From an analytic point of view, the only thing one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one’s desire (Seminar 7, 319)”

— Jacques Lacan

“[B]y reinterpreting Freudianism in terms of language, a pre-eminently social activity, Lacan permits us to explore the relations between the unconscious and human society.…

— Terry Eagleton

“In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this…

— Terry Eagleton

“If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to speak coherently…

— Terry Eagleton

“All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.”

— Jacques Lacan

“The great discovery of psychoanalysis was that of the production of desire, of the production of the unconscious. But once Oedipus entered the picture,…

— Gilles Deleuze

Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set…

— Gilles Deleuze

D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a…

— Gilles Deleuze

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…

— Camille Paglia

“What Althusser does… is to rethink the concept of ideology in terms of Lacan’s ‘imaginary’. For the relation of an individual subject to society…

— Terry Eagleton

“Language, the unconscious, the parents, the symbolic order: these terms in Lacan are not exactly synonymous, but they are intimately allied. They are sometimes…

— Terry Eagleton

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