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

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

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

- Jacques Lacan

The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.

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

- Jacques Lacan