Jacques Lacan

French Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst, Philosopher. C'est à vous d'être lacaniens, si vous voulez. Moi, je suis freudien.

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love is giving to others what one does not have

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l'amour c'est offrir à quelqu'un qui n'en veut pas quelque chose que l'on n'a pas

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l‘amore è dare all’altro quello che non si ha

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The mirror stage is far from a mere phenomenon which occurs in the development of the child.

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It illustrates the conflictual nature of the dual relationship.

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The mirror stage is a phenomenon to which I assign a twofold value.

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In the first place, it has historical value as it marks a decisive turning-point in the mental development of the child.

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In the second place, it typifies an essential libidinal relationship with the body-image.

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what realizes itself in my history is not the past definite of what was since it is no longer, nor even the present perfect

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of what I will have been in what I am, but the future perfect of what I will have been for what I am in the process of becoming...

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The idea of the unifying unity of the human condition has always had on me the effect of a scandalous lie.

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Where is the subject? It is necessary to find the subject as a lost object.

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More precisely this lost object is the support of the subject and in many cases is a more abject thing than you may care to consider.

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As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along

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what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

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the unconscious is the discourse of the Other

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The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.

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

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But what Freud showed us... was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt,

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except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.