French - Psychologist | April 13, 1901 - September 9, 1981
What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?
Jacques Lacan
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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 its submission to symbols.
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For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
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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 absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?
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The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.
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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 rise spontaneously.
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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.
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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 purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.
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What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
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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 most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.
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Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.
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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!
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