Unconscious Quotes

Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as...

There is the inner life, which is the world of final reality, the world of memory, emotion, imaginat...

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...

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...

Thinking is like a fountain. Once it gets going at a certain pressure, well, it almost impossible to...

I find it very difficult to talk here now because I'm watching the sea all the time. The sea always ...

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego want...

Cultivate the habit of making aware choice. Your choice makes your destiny. Do not be carried away b...

Life is beautiful. Suffering is due to unconscious following.

We ought to be much more fearful of what we don’t know. We should really be fearful of an unconsciou...

Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas maybe we do so because those ideas are...

One need not be a chamber to be haunted,One need not be a house;The brain has corridors surpassingMa...

Briefly summarising, we can express the proposed law thus: consciousness is bound up with learning i...

People always want something more than immediate joy or that deeper sense called happiness. This is ...

In the second place, however, history is made in such a way that the final result always arises from...

Perhaps it was as well that she had been unconscious for four weeks. She had missed the aftermath, t...

. . . I'm not sure we always respect the mysteries of the locked door and the dangers of the storyte...

Be good at the depth of you, and you will discover that those who surround you will be good even to ...

This invisible and divine goodness, of which I only speak here because of its being one of the sures...

Most people do not erode their self-esteem over big issues but over small ones, little acts of betra...