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? Jacques Lacan More Quotes by Jacques Lacan More Quotes From Jacques Lacan The unconscious is structured like a language. Jacques Lacan unconscious language 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. Jacques Lacan aggravation risk running I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being. Jacques Lacan defects universe purity The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience. Jacques Lacan function stage mirrors For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence. Jacques Lacan units symbols absence The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society. Jacques Lacan psychosis passion community If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience. Jacques Lacan sexuality reality facts 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. Jacques Lacan mysterious secret people 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. Jacques Lacan symptoms want believe Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there. Jacques Lacan goes-on men 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. Jacques Lacan arbitrary may believe 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! Jacques Lacan psychics waiting needs The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible. Jacques Lacan would-be drama facts 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. Jacques Lacan splits communication men My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing. Jacques Lacan real guarantees law The sentence completes its signification only with its last term. Jacques Lacan sentences term lasts Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters. Jacques Lacan flying writing wind 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. Jacques Lacan dimensions lines may C'est à vous d'être lacaniens, si vous voulez. Moi, je suis freudien. (You can be Lacanians, if you want. As for me, I'm a Freudian.) Jacques Lacan perhaps I am a Lacanian because I formerly did Chinese Jacques Lacan
