Jacques Lacan Quotes

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

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

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

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table? - 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. - Jacques Lacan

The sentence completes its signification only with its last term. - Jacques Lacan

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible. - Jacques Lacan

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience. - 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! - Jacques Lacan

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