Believe Quote by Jacques Lacan

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.

— Jacques Lacan

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

Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

— Jacques Lacan

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

— Jacques Lacan

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

The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.

— Jacques Lacan

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

“Il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel.”

— Jacques Lacan

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

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

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

The evil eye is the fascinum, it is that which has the effect of arresting movement and, literally, of killing life. At the moment…

— Jacques Lacan