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1. "What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?" ~ Jacques Lacan
2. "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
3. "¿qué puede justificar la fidelidad, fuera de la palabra empeñada? Pero la palabra empeñada a menudo se empeña a la ligera. Sino se la empeñase así, es probable que se la empeñaría mucho más raramente." ~ Jacques Lacan
4. "¿Cómo justificar esa palabra tan imprudentemente comprometida y, hablando con propiedad – de esto, jamás dudó espíritu serio alguno-, insostenible?" ~ Jacques Lacan
5. "Il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel." ~ Jacques Lacan
6. "...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
7. "The real is what resists symbolization absolutely." ~ Jacques Lacan
8. "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
9. "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
10. "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
11. "The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom" ~ Jacques Lacan
12. "I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being." ~ Jacques Lacan
13. "Amar es dar lo que no se tiene" ~ Jacques Lacan
14. "The sentence completes its signification only with its last term." ~ Jacques Lacan
15. "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
16. "That the Sadian fantasy situates itself better in the bearers of Christian ethics than elsewhere is what our structural landmarks allow us to grasp easily. But that Sade, himself, refuses to be my neighbor, is what needs to be recalled, not in order to refuse it to him in return, but in order to recognize the meaning of this refusal. We believe that Sade is not close enough to his own wickedness to recognize his neighbor in it. A trait which he shares with many, and notably with Freud. For such is indeed the sole motive of the recoil of beings, sometimes forewarned, before the Christian commandment. For Sade, we see the test of this, crucial in our eyes, in his refusal of the death penalty, which history, if not logic, would suffice to show is one of the corollaries of Charity." ~ Jacques Lacan
17. "by Baudelaire! things are pretty hot!" ~ Jacques Lacan
18. "From an analytic point of view, the only thing one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one's desire (Seminar 7, 319)" ~ Jacques Lacan
19. "Todo arte se caracteriza por un cierto modo de organización alrededor de ese vacío" ~ Jacques Lacan
20. "Cuz words" ~ Jacques Lacan
21. "Pada bahasa terdapat unsur ketaksadaran. Dalam ketidaksadaran inilah terdapat hasrat, dan hasarat manusia adalah hasrat akan yang lain. Yang simbolik ini ditandai dengan adanya kekurangan. Oleh karena adanya kekurangan inilah, maka manusia menghasrati sesuatu." ~ Jacques Lacan
22. "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
23. "La atracción por la utilidad es tan irresistible, que vemos personas dispuestas a todo por el placer de dar sus comodidades a quienes se les metió en la cabeza que no podrían vivir sin su auxilio." ~ Jacques Lacan
24. "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
25. "For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence." ~ Jacques Lacan
26. "The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible." ~ Jacques Lacan
27. "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
28. "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
29. "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
30. "Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there." ~ Jacques Lacan
31. "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
32. "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
33. "The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience." ~ Jacques Lacan
34. "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
35. "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
36. "S'il n y a pas de rapport sexuel c'est que l'Autre est d'une autre race." ~ Jacques Lacan
37. "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

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