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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.
- Jacques Lacan
#Communication
#Man
#Split
#Submission
#Symbols
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.
- Jacques Lacan
#Because
#Believe
#Irrational
#Take
#Want
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.
- Jacques Lacan
#Advantage
#Believe
#May
#More
#Necessity
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.
- Jacques Lacan
#People
#Rise
#See
#Talent
#Truth
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.
- Jacques Lacan
#Because
#Degrade
#More
#Purpose
#Way
The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.
- Jacques Lacan
#Drama
#Possible
#Scene
#Without
#Would
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?
- Jacques Lacan
#Development
#Geometry
#Other
#Sex
#Us
Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.
- Jacques Lacan
#Blank
#Charge
#Flying
#Letters
#Would
What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?
- Jacques Lacan
#Cards
#Face
#More
#Table
#Up
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!
- Jacques Lacan
#Know
#Knowledge
#Need
#Reach
#Wait
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.
- Jacques Lacan
#Find
#Mean
#Means
#Obsession
#Trap
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.
- Jacques Lacan
#Absence
#Being
#Nature
#Only
#Uniqueness
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.
- Jacques Lacan
#Birth
#Born
#Language
#Man
#Words
The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.
- Jacques Lacan
#Experience
#Function
#Mirror
#Stage
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
- Jacques Lacan
#How
#Matter
#Relationship
#Universe
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