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 c...
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
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.
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.
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.
Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.
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!