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• Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

  Jacques Lacan

  People, Secret, Mysterious

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• For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

  Jacques Lacan

  Absence, Units, Symbols

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• Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

  Jacques Lacan

  Running, Aggravation, Risk

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• The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

  Jacques Lacan

  Mirrors, Stage, Function

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

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• The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.

  Jacques Lacan

  Passion, Psychosis, Community

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

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• The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.

  Jacques Lacan

  Drama, Would Be, Facts

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• If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.

  Jacques Lacan

  Reality, Facts, Sexuality

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• Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

  Jacques Lacan

  Men, Goes On

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• Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.

  Jacques Lacan

  Believe, Arbitrary, May

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• My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.

  Jacques Lacan

  Real, Law, Guarantees

  Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller (2013). “The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan”, p.76, Routledge

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• A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?

  Jacques Lacan

  Sex, Doe, Development

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• 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.

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  Lines, May, Dimensions

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• 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.

  Jacques Lacan

  Communication, Men, Splits

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• 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!

  Jacques Lacan

  Psychics, Waiting, Needs

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