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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 19 quotes by Jacques Lacan Part of a series of articles on Psychoanalysis Concepts Psychosexual development Psychosocial development (Erikson) Unconscious Preconscious Consciousness Psychic apparatus Id, ego and super-ego Libido Drive Transference Countertransference Ego defenses Resistance Projection Denial Dreamwork Important figures Alfred Adler Michael Balint Wilfred Bion Josef Breuer Nancy Chodorow Max Eitingon Erik Erikson Ronald Fairbairn Paul Federn Otto Fenichel... Read full biography of Jacques Lacan → 1 2 Ctrl → Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find... → 0 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. 0 What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe? 0 What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table? 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe... → 0 Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a... → 0 Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them... → 0 Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters. 0 The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible. 0 For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence. 0 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... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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19 quotes by Jacques Lacan