French - Psychologist | April 13, 1901 - September 9, 1981
Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes.
Jacques Lacan
PlaceSayWhyWillWhereverWhere
Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.
ManThoughtGoCenterWhereSince
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
WordsManLanguageBornBirthFirst
Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.
BelieveMoreMayNecessityAdvantage
But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.
WorkBrokenOpinionYouUpAbstract
The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.
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Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
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