But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.

Jacques Lacan

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

Jacques Lacan

want giving mean

All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.

Jacques Lacan

this-world mirrors world

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.

Jacques Lacan

desire lying rooms

I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.

Jacques Lacan

real impossible way

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

Jacques Lacan

matter doe giving

The I is always in the field of the Other.

Jacques Lacan

fields

The evil eye is the fascinum, it is that which has the effect of arresting movement and, literally, of killing life. At the moment the subject stops, suspending his gesture, he is mortified. This anti-life, anti-movement function of the terminal point is the fascinum, and it is precisely one of the dimensions in which the power of the gaze is exercised directly.

Jacques Lacan

movement eye evil

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

Jacques Lacan

poetry-is reason

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.

Jacques Lacan

position relation

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.

Jacques Lacan

my-thoughts thinking

The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.

Jacques Lacan

real

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

Jacques Lacan

guilty given desire

I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.

Jacques Lacan

becoming perfect past

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

Jacques Lacan

discourse unconscious

The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.

Jacques Lacan

early-morning baltimore morning

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.

Jacques Lacan

language men firsts

But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.

Jacques Lacan

symbolic destroyed way

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

Jacques Lacan

gestures tables cards

Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension

Jacques Lacan

dimensions real desire

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

Jacques Lacan

obsession doe mean