Quotes from Jacques Lacan

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.

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.

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

C'est à vous d'être lacaniens, si vous voulez. Moi, je suis freudien. (You can be Lacanians, if you want. As for me, I'm a Freudian.)

perhaps I am a Lacanian because I formerly did Chinese

by Baudelaire! things are pretty hot!

A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers to them most truly.

If a man who thinks he is a king is mad, a king who thinks he is a king is no less so.

The time for comprehending can be reduced to the instant of the glance, but this glance can include in its instant all the time needed for comprehending.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

S'il n y a pas de rapport sexuel c'est que l'Autre est d'une autre race.

Todo arte se caracteriza por un cierto modo de organización alrededor de ese vacío

Many people talk about messages everywhere, inside the organism a hormone is a message, a beam of light to obtain teleguidance to a plane or from a satellite is a message, and so on; but the message in language is absolutely different. The message. Our message, in all cases comes from the Other by which I understand "from the place of the Other.

Man goes round in circles because the structure, the structure of man, is toric

Je pense où je ne suis pas, donc je suis où je ne pense pas. Je ne suis pas, là où je suis le jouet de ma pensée. Je pense à ce que je suis, là où je ne pense pas penser.

Çünkü günah kanun olmadan yaÅŸayamaz. Bir zamanlar kanun yoktu ve ben hayattayd?m, ama sonra buyruk gelince günah dirildi ve ben öldüm. Ve gördüm ki hayat getirmesi gereken buyruk, ölüm getirdi. Çünkü buyruktan f?rsat bulan günah beni kand?rd?, ve böylece beni öldürdü. [Romans, 7:7-11]

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.

Gerçekten de insanlar?n birbirine tahammül edebilmesi için belli bir eÄŸitim ÅŸart.

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.

I have long stressed the Hegelian procedure at work in this reversal of positions of the beautiful soul in relation to the reality he accuses. The point is not to adapt him to it, but to show him that he is only too well adapted to it, since he assists in its very fabrication.

A certificate tells me that I was born. I repudiate this certificate: I am not a poet, but a poem. A poem that is being written, even if it looks like a subject.

Ä°nsan kendi arzusuna ayak uydurmada giderek acizleÅŸir. Hatta bu acizliÄŸi cinsel tetiklenmeyi kaybettirecek raddeye bile ulaÅŸabilir. Bunu kaybetmese bile kiÅŸi arzu nesnesini nas?l bulaca??n? bilemez hale gelir, aray???nda hüsran d???nda hiçbir ÅŸey bulamaz ve kendini keÅŸfetme ÅŸans?n? kademe kademe yok eden bir eziyet içinde yaÅŸar.

Okurken eÄŸitimin kökünde insan? yaratmaya dair belli bir fikrin yatt???n? görüyorsunuz; sanki insan? yaratan eÄŸitimmiÅŸ gibi. Halbuki, iÅŸin doÄŸrusu insan? eÄŸitmek gereksizdir. Tüm eÄŸitimini kendisi edinir. Öyle ya da böyle eÄŸitir kendisini. Elbet bir ÅŸey öÄŸrenmek zorunda kalacak ve bunun için dirsek çürütecektir.

Ne büyük zafer olurdu. Ä°nsan sonunda herhangi bir baÅŸar? elde etmiÅŸ olurdu böylece; kendi y?k?m?n?.