Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.
The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning. - Jacques Lacan
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
Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.
The I is always in the field of the Other. - Jacques Lacan
The I is always in the field of the Other.
Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it. - Jacques Lacan
Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.
The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom - Jacques Lacan
The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom
What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table? - Jacques Lacan
What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?
The sentence completes its signification only with its last term. - Jacques Lacan
The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.
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 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…
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
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 …
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