Quotes of Jacques Lacan - somelinesforyou

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

- Jacques Lacan

“ 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? ”

- Jacques Lacan

“ 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? ”

- Jacques Lacan

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

- Jacques Lacan

“ If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience. ”

- Jacques Lacan

“ One learns that the opinions formulated by the pens of our great thinkers over the centuries are strange indeed. ”

- Jacques Lacan

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

- 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

“ 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

“ What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table? ”

- Jacques Lacan

“ 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

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

- Jacques Lacan

“ One learns that the opinions formulated by the pens of our great thinkers over the centuries are strange indeed. ”

- Jacques Lacan

“ As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension. ”

- 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

“ 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? ”

- 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ One learns that the opinions formulated by the pens of our great thinkers over the centuries are strange indeed. ”

- 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially. ”

- Jacques Lacan

“ 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
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