00308--JACQUES-MARIE EMILE LACAN and his works

JACQUES-MARIE EMILE LACAN

1.Ecrits I & II 2.Television: A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment 3.‘The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience’ 4.‘La famille’ 5.De la psychose paranoïaque dans ses rapports avec la personnalité 6,Écrits: A Selection

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?

00151--What Lacanian critics do?

1)        Like Freudian critics they pay close attention to unconscious motives and feelings, but instead of excavating for those of the author or characters, they search out those of the text itself, uncovering contradictory under currents of meaning, which lie like a subconscious beneath the 'conscious' of the text.  This is another way of defining the process of 'deconstruction'.

2)        They demonstrate the presence in the literary work of Lacanian psychoanalytic symptoms or phases, such as the mirror-stage or the sovereignty of the unconscious. 

3)        They see the literary text as an enactment or demonstration of Lacanian views about language and unconscious, particularly the endemic elusiveness of the signified, and the centrality of the unconscious.  In practice, this results in favaouring the anti-realist test which challenges the conventions literary representation.

4)        They treat the literary text in terms of a series of broader Lacanian orientations, towards such concepts as lack or desire, for instance.