Occupation: Psychoanalyst Birth: April 13, 1901 Death: September 9, 1981
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 ….
The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning..
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 m….
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..
The sentence completes its signification only with its last term..
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..
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?.
The I is always in the field of the Other..
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!.
Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension.
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 purpo….
I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not ….
The unconscious is the discourse of the Other..
I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being..
Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in re….
Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find on….
The real is what resists symbolization absolutely..
All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors..