The 39+ 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!

A Geometry Implies The Heterogeneity Of Locus, Namely That There Is A Locus Of The Other. Regarding This Locus Of The Other, Of One Sex As Other, As Absolute Other, What Does The Most Recent Development In Topology Allow Us To Posit?

We Emphasize That Such A Form Of Communication Is Not Absent In Man, However Evanescent A Naturally Given Object May Be For Him, Split As It Is In Its Submission To Symbols.

As Is Known, It Is In The Realm Of Experience Inaugurated By Psychoanalysis That We May Grasp Along What Imaginary Lines The Human Organism, In The Most Intimate Recesses Of Its Being, Manifests Its Capture In A Symbolic Dimension.

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.

Aside From That Reservation, A Fictive Tale Even Has The Advantage Of Manifesting Symbolic Necessity More Purely To The Extent That We May Believe Its Conception Arbitrary.

If Psychoanalysis Clarifies Some Facts Of Sexuality, It Is Not By Aiming At Them In Their Own Reality, Not In Biological Experience.

Yet, Analytical Truth Is Not As Mysterious, Or As Secret, So As To Not Allow Us To See That People With A Talent For Directing Consciences See Truth Rise Spontaneously.

Since Freud, The Center Of Man Is Not Where We Thought It Was; One Has To Go On From There.

The Narration, In Fact, Doubles The Drama With A Commentary Without Which No Mise En Scene Would Be Possible.

The Mirror Stage As Formative In The Function Of The I As Revealed In Psychoanalytic Experience.

The Sufferings Of Neurosis And Psychosis Are For Us A Schooling In The Passions Of The Soul, Just As The Beam Of The Psychoanalytic Scales, When We Calculate The Tilt Of Its Threat To Entire Communities, Provides Us With An Indication Of The Deadening Of The Passions In Society.