Lacan Quotes

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

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

If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course ...

[B]y reinterpreting Freudianism in terms of language, a pre-eminently social activity, Lacan permits...

What Althusser does… is to rethink the concept of ideology in terms of Lacan’s ‘imaginary’. For the ...

Language, the unconscious, the parents, the symbolic order: these terms in Lacan are not exactly syn...

Lacan, as we have seen in our discussion of Freud, regards the unconscious as structured like a lang...

In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and wi...