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The neurotic's desire is not his or her "own" in the first place, for it has never been subjectified. Subjectfication is the goal of analysis: subjectification of the cause-that is, of the Other's desire as cause.

Note how stereotypical the traits are that he assigns to her – she could be almost any woman celebrated in courtly love poetry.

given the amount of material Freud provides in the case study, but one point which seems amply clear is that all of the Rat Man's problems are intimately related to his father.

The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the power of all true science. — Albert Einstein

Standing in the deep, black well of his guilt David looked up and saw stars of God's grace that those who stand in the noonday sunlight of self-righteousness never see.

Young woman, I think that there are at least two things more irritating than a lighter which won't work in a train on a long journey. One of them's being disembowelled by the Gestapo, and the other's being talked at by you.

If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.

Once the technology is in place, there will always be the temptation to use it. And it is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

The beat of her heart, the slow burning away...of the bitter fires of the devil's arcade.

As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent.

I told them I failed my draft physical. My dad, who often dismissively uttered the words "I can't wait 'til the army gets ahold of you," sat at the kitchen table, flicked the ash off of his cigarette, took a puff, slowly let the smoke escape from his lips and mumbled, "That's good.

The world was kept intact by the fantastic predilection of the human mind for boredom.

The point is to cut the feedback relationship between terrorism and the global media.

He spread his arms in benediction, like that Jesus statue in Brazil before the Maoists blew it up.

You give a guy a license to steal, you've got to expect him to use it.

I am not ranting. I possess a perspective here that you people, who are locked in the ivory basements of your own sub-cultures, simply do not possess.

Looks like your sci-fi prediction came true right away, Xavier." "That can be gratifying," mused the novelist. "But not all the time."»

But then is no one at home any longer?" No, as a matter of fact. Neither state sovereignty nor inviolable borders can take the place of politics any longer.

It is part of my existence to be the parasite of metaphors, so easily am I carried away by the first simile that comes along. Having been carried away, I have to find my difficult way back, and slowly return to my senses.

Placing himself, rather than God, at the center of the universe and making himself autonomous, man will give up his rationality so he can preserve his rationalism, his autonomy, and his rebellion against God.36

changes in the story were the result of normal editing.

an odd-job detective agency with fuzzy lines of authority and responsibility.

Grace is not a universal solvent to wash away God's standards.

Such preaching puts people in immediate contact with the power of the Word. E