Quotes Tagged With :symbolic

Language, the unconscious, the parents, the symbolic order: these terms in Lacan are not exactly synonymous,....

as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions....

And so we see the paradox that evolution has handed us. If man is the only animal whose consciousness....

In the presence of Esch, values have hidden their faces. Order, loyalty, sacrifice—he cherishes all....

What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion.....

It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

In symbolic exchange, of which the gift is our most proximate illustration, the object is not an object:....

Source truth exists in greater abundance outside of the symbolic system of words.

'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is rich....

She forced herself to stroll casually and appraise her plants. The wisteria was shedding its final leaves,....