I leave you the best phrases of Jacques-Marie Émile Lacan, a prominent French physician, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, recognized for his contributions to psychoanalysis through analytical experience and the study of Sigmund Freud.
Jacques Lacan (April 13, 1901 - September 9, 1981) was an important figure in Parisian intellectual life for much of the 20th century. Sometimes called "the French Freud," he is an important figure in the history of psychoanalysis.
His teachings and writings explore the importance of Freud's discovery of the unconscious, both within the theory and practice of analysis itself, and in relation to a wide range of other disciplines.
Particularly for those interested in the philosophical dimensions of Freudian thought, Lacan's work is invaluable. His work was defined by himself as a "return to Freud" and incorporated philosophy, structural linguistics and mathematics.
He always stood out for his controversial style and for being one of the main exponents of the structuralist current. Among his best known works are: The self in Freud's theory and psychoanalytic technique, The Psychosis, Freud's technical writings and The object relationship.
You may also be interested in these psychology phrases or these from Sigmund Freud.
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1-The truth can only be told in terms of fiction.
2-It is only idiots who believe in the reality of the world, the real is filthy in itself and we have to endure it.
3-Knowledge has as its first virtue its ability to face what is not evident.
4-What does it matter how many lovers you can have if none of them can give you the universe?
5-Reality acts as the support of the neurotic's ghost.
6-The art and the word exist commonly to hide the lack.
7-An analyst cannot lose his attention from the full word.
8-Only those who gave in to their desire feel guilty.
9-From a wound, what matters is the scar.
10-Every relationship is based on a certain relationship between two unconscious knowledge.
11-It is in sexuality where Freud focused things. And that is because it is in sexuality where the human being, the speaking being, babbles.
12-The sexual relationship has its end in reality.
13-The truth has a fictional structure.
14-The only thing the analyst does is return to the analysand (analysand = »patient») his same inverted message, as if it were a mirror (in which the analysand can be recognized).
15-Nothing satisfies the desire at all.
16-Can there be something that justifies fidelity, other than the promised word? However, the word pawned is often pawned lightly. If it were not pawned like this, it is likely that it will be pawned much more rarely.
17-The structure of the unconscious is similar to a language.
18-The attraction for utility is so irresistible that we can observe people willing to do anything for the pleasure of giving their comforts to those who have the idea that they will not be able to live without their help.
19-An analyst does not know what he says, but it is his duty to know what he does.
20-Art, whatever it may be, is always a certain way of organization around that void.
21-Who knows is not the analyst, who knows is the analysand (analysand = «patient»).
22-Being a psychoanalyst is simply to open your eyes to the evidence that nothing is more absurd than human reality.
23-We have the idea that it is with our brains that we think, but I particularly think with my feet. That is the only way that allows me to get in touch with something solid.
24-The only thing we all talk about is our own symptom.
25-It is common for the obvious to go unnoticed, precisely because it is obvious.
26-It is the duty of the analyst to take the place of the dead.
27-As intimacy is unbearable, then there is extimacy.
28-All desire is born in the absence.
29-When the loved one moves far enough in betraying himself and persists in his self-deception, love stops following him.
30-It is only love that can make pleasure condescend to desire.
31-Desire is always desire.
32-The symptom is a metaphor.
33-That error that arises from deception is the truth, and to achieve it you must start from a misunderstanding.
34-Desire subject to the subject.
35-If you consider that you already understood, the most likely thing is that you are wrong.
36-The thing dies in the word.
37-To love is to give what you do not have to someone who does not want it.
38-I think where I am not, then I am where I do not think.
39-The desire of man is the desire of the Other.
40-You can be Lacanians if you want. For my part I declare myself a Freudian.
41-Anxiety as we know it always has a connection with a loss. With a relationship that is two-sided and can fade simply by being replaced by something else. Something that no patient can face without feeling a sensation of vertigo.
42-What could become more convincing, however, than the gesture of putting your own cards face up on the table?
43-I am located at that point where the universe is spoken of as a defect in the purity of not being.
44-It is not necessary to have to wait for Freud to access the knowledge that there is a part of our psychic functions that are beyond our conscious reach.
45-Taking hold of the use of the symbolic is the only way that the analytical process has to penetrate the plane of identification.
46-The man who has to face the issues of a birth, must get involved in the dynamics of the language that is given to him. Even before birth he was already being included within it.
47-However, analytical truth is not so mysterious, so that it prevents us from recognizing people who can direct their consciences to see the truth emerge spontaneously.
48-Castration could be defined as the denial of that jouissance in order to advance on the inverse scale of the law of desire.
49-The real is what refuses to be symbolized in an absolute way.
50-The reason why we go after poetry is not that search for philosophy, but rather the dismantling of philosophy.
51-It is true only to the extent that we follow it.
52-The narration, in effect, doubles its drama from the comments, without which, no staging would be possible.
53-Desire takes place in that repercussion that arises from articulating language at the level of the other.
54-Since Freud the center of man is no longer what we thought it was. Now we have to get out of there.
55-The secret by which the truth has always initiated her lovers, and by which they have accessed her paths, is that it is in the hidden where she delivers the greatest amount of truth.
56-If at some point psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it does not do so based on the reality of these acts, nor in their character of biological experience.
57-When you actually love, this has nothing to do with sex.
58-I love you, but, inexplicably and because I love something else, then I mutilate you.
59-Better will do by resigning who is not able to unite his horizon to the subjectivity of his time.
60-The unwary are wrong.
61-The woman does not exist.
62-The sexual relationship does not exist (there is no complete relationship or a complete understanding of the sexual).
63-… Others will have to repeat it. And of all my sayings what will remain? (…) They will perhaps be like the fossilized bee in amber, we can have the image of it but we will never know about its flight.
64-The subject does not speak, but is spoken.
65-Below the signifier there is nothing.
66-It is clear in this way that it is speaking how love is made.
67-Loving is, above all, wanting to be loved.
68-Psychoanalysis is not, on the one hand, a faith, but on the other I don't like to call it a science either. Let's say it is a practice and that it works on what is not right.
69-The principle of pleasure lies in doing nothing, doing as little as possible.
70-Life has only one meaning, to be able to gamble it and risk life has something to do with it.
71-When in love I ask you for a look, that act is condemned to be unsatisfactory in any way. Because you will never observe me from where I see you.
72-You can love someone not only for what they have, but literally for what they lack.
73-We are beings with the ability to desire, but always incomplete, that's where our walk arises.
74-You may get to know what he says, but not what the other heard.
75-To make omelets it is necessary to break the eggs.
76-The symptoms, what you think you know about other people, may seem irrational, but it is because you take them in isolation, and want to interpret them directly.
77-Psychoanalysis is an extremely efficient instrument, and because every day it gains more prestige, it is in danger of being used for a different purpose than that for which it was created, and in this way we can degrade it.
78-Leaving aside the possible reservations, a fictitious story even has the advantage of revealing a symbolic need in a more pure way as we can make it happen as arbitrary.
79-I save, but I do not expect anything.
80-If there is an object of your desire that is none other than yourself.
81-All love is reciprocal even in the case that it is not reciprocated.
82-How to justify that word so recklessly compromised and, properly speaking, unsustainable?
83-Love means giving something that you do not have to someone who does not need it.
84-All kinds of things in this world behave like mirrors.
85-The analyst must be attentive to the full word.
86-The self is always in the field of the Other.
87-The meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified, but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.
88-The best image to summarize the unconscious is Baltimore at dawn.
89-What Freud showed us was that nothing can be grabbed, destroyed, or burned, except in a symbolic way.
90-That an analysis carries the characteristics of the person being analyzed, is something that is spoken of as if it fell under its own weight.
91-The real is what absolutely resists symbolization.
92-The psychoanalyst without a doubt directs the cure. The first principle of this cure is that it should not direct the patient.
93-We do not show these deviations for our own pleasure, but rather to make buoys of their stumbling blocks on our route.
94-If the analyst only had to deal with resistance, he would think about it before making an interpretation.
95-The serious thing is that with today's authors, the sequence of analytics seems to be taken the other way around.
96-Interpretation here becomes a requirement of weakness to which we have to come to the aid.
97-Freud's interpretation is so daring that, having vulgarized it, we no longer recognize its scope.
98-The idea that the surface is the level of the superficial is in turn dangerous.
99-Transfer capacity measures access to reality.
100-The style of the relationships between the subject and the object is one of the most evolved.