Author: Jacques Lacan

Quotes

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

- Jacques Lacan

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

- 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 rise spontaneously.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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