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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, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.

Jacques Lacan
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Jacques Lacan's Popular Quotes

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

- Jacques Lacan

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

- Jacques Lacan

The I is always in the field of the Other.

- Jacques Lacan

Love means 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

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

- Jacques Lacan

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 …

- Jacques Lacan

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…

- Jacques Lacan

The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.

- Jacques Lacan
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