The I is always in the field of the Other. Jacques Lacan More Quotes by Jacques Lacan More Quotes From Jacques Lacan Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes. Jacques Lacan say will place like 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 you opinion broken work