For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence. Jacques Lacan More Quotes by Jacques Lacan More Quotes From Jacques Lacan 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
