Quotes by : Jacques Lacan

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what....

I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of....

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially,....

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given....

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

A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it....

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

I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my....

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is....

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the....