Quotes by Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan

…Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.

Desire

Lying

Rooms

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?

Development

Doe

Sex

But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.

Destroyed

Symbolic

Way

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

Absence

Symbols

Units

I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.

Defects

Purity

Universe

I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.

My Thoughts

Thinking

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.

Firsts

Language

Men

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

Position

Relation

My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.

Guarantees

Law

Real

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.

Doe

Mean

Obsession

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Absence

Cards

Communication

Defects

Desire

Destroyed

Development

Doe

Drama

Evil

Eye

Facts

Firsts

Flying

Function

Gestures

Goes On

Guarantees

Language

Law

Lying

Mean

Men

Mirrors

Movement

My Thoughts

Mysterious

Needs

Obsession

People

Poetry Is

Position

Psychics

Purity

Real

Reason

Relation

Rooms

Secret

Sex

Splits

Stage

Symbolic

Symbols

Tables

Thinking

Unconscious

Units

Universe

Waiting

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Quotes by Jacques Lacan

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?

But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.

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

I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.

I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.

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.

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.

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.

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