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A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it...

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We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally ...

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

I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of...

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...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at th...

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As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along ...

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I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in m...

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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, c...

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In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is...

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Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

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Jacques Lacan

Psychoanalyst

Born: 1901-04-13

Died: 1981-09-09

Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist.More