Jacques Lacan Quotes

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

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.’ – Jacques Lacan

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

‘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

‘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