Jacques Lacan

(39 votes)   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.

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(34 votes)   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?

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(12 votes)   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.

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(11 votes)   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.

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(11 votes)   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.

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(35 votes)   If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.

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(30 votes)   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.

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(30 votes)   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.

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

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(16 votes)   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.

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(16 votes)   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!

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(16 votes)   What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

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(15 votes)   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.

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(14 votes)   The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

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(13 votes)   Love letter or conspiratorial letter, letter of betrayal or letter of mission, letter of summons or letter of distress, we are assured of but one thing: the Queen muse not bring it to the knowledge of her lord and master.

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