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00274-- 10 BEST QUOTES BY LACAN


1. Since Freud, the centre of man is not where we thought it  was; one has to go on from there.



2. The unconscious is structured like a language.


3. Desire is always what is inscribed as a repercussion of the articulation of language at the level of the Other.


4. For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.



5. The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.


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


7. What is realised in my history is neither the past definite as what was, since it is no more, nor even the perfect as what has been in what I am, but the future anterior as what I will have been, given what I am in the process of becoming.


8.  There is no such a thing as Woman.



9. 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.




10. What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?