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

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

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

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

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What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

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

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Castration means that jouissance has to be refused in order to be attained on the inverse scale of the Law of desire.

Jacques Lacan in Ecrits, 827
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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.

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Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

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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!

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