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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

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

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

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

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

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

It is only through the radical defile of speech that we fall into the illusion that language is a register of conscious construction — Lacan Jacques

Reading in no way obliges us to understand. — Jacques Lacan

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

Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater! — Gilles Deleuze

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

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

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

As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy. — Slavoj Zizek

The unconscious is structured like a language. — Jacques Lacan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

by Baudelaire! things are pretty hot! — Jacques Lacan

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

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

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other. — Jacques Lacan

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

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

Truth has the structure of a fiction. — Lacan

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

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

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

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

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

The real is what resists symbolization absolutely. — Jacques Lacan