"The only thing of which one can be……" — Jacques Lacan
"The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire."
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Jacques Lacan
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38 Quotes by Jacques Lacan
Jacques Lacan has 38 quotes on this site.
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If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in…
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Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.
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The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the…
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The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.
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The I is always in the field of the Other.
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The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.
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Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people…
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The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.
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Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension
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What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
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Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an…
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What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
— Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
— Richard Bach
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated…
— Chinua Achebe
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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