Jacques Lacan quotes - page 2

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. View quote
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Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it. View quote
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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! View quote
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Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there. View quote
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Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters. View quote
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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. View quote
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