Author: Jacques Lacan

Quotes

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

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

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

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

- Jacques Lacan

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