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

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

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

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of eve….

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

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

The unconscious is structured like a language..

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe it….

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

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directl….

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..

I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's thr….

The evil eye is the fascinum, it is that which has the effect of arresting movement and, literally, of killing life. At the moment the subject stops,….

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

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

I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, s….

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

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 ….

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

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 c….

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 it….