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Jacques Lacan quotes: But what Freud showed us ... was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.

But what Freud showed us ... was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.

Jacques Lacan quotes: When one loves, it has nothing to do with sex.

When one loves, it has nothing to do with sex.

Jacques Lacan quotes: Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

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

Jacques Lacan quotes: The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

Jacques Lacan quotes: All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.

All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.

Jacques Lacan quotes: The I is always in the field of the Other.

The I is always in the field of the Other.

Jacques Lacan quotes: Reading in no way obliges us to understand.

Reading in no way obliges us to understand.

Jacques Lacan quotes: Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension

Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension

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

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

Jacques Lacan quotes: My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.

My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.

Jacques Lacan quotes: I love you, but, because inexplicably I love in you something more than you - the object petit a - I mutilate you.

I love you, but, because inexplicably I love in you something more than you - the object petit a - I mutilate you.

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

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

Jacques Lacan quotes: I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.

I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.

Jacques Lacan quotes: The unconscious is structured like a language.

The unconscious is structured like a language.

Jacques Lacan quotes: The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

Jacques Lacan quotes: What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

Jacques Lacan quotes: If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.

If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.

Jacques Lacan quotes: Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

Jacques Lacan quotes: In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

Jacques Lacan quotes: Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

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 quotes: by Baudelaire! things are pretty hot!

by Baudelaire! things are pretty hot!

Jacques Lacan quotes: What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

Jacques Lacan quotes: The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.

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

Jacques Lacan quotes: The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

Jacques Lacan quotes: 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)

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 quotes: The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

Jacques Lacan quotes: The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.

The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.

Jacques Lacan quotes: A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers to them most truly.

A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers to them most truly.

Jacques Lacan quotes: The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

Jacques Lacan quotes: It is only true inasmuch as it is truly followed.

It is only true inasmuch as it is truly followed.

Jacques Lacan quotes: There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore I must destroy you

There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore I must destroy you

Jacques Lacan quotes: The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.

The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.