Jacques Lacan Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.

  Jacques Lacan

  Past, Perfect, Becoming

  Jacques Lacan, Alan Sheridan (1980). “Écrits: a selection”

• The unconscious is structured like a language.

  Jacques Lacan

  Language, Unconscious

  "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason Since Freud" (1957)

• 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.

  Jacques Lacan

  Men, Firsts, Language

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