Desire Quote by Jacques Lacan Download Open image “Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension” — Jacques Lacan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Dimensions Love Real Tragic
“Love can be a land of wilderness, a wasteland of lost dreams in the backwoods of our muddled emotions, or it can be a… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
For reasons I don't fully understand, tragic love has a certain appeal. — Christian Camargo Copy Share Image
Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. — Slavoj Žižek 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 past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image