Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst born on April 13, 1901, and died on September 9, 1981. He had a profound impact on the field of psychoanalysis, particularly within the structuralist and post-structuralist movements. Lacan's theories have had a wide-ranging influence on psychology, literature, and the arts.
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“Il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel.”
Source: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis
“L'unica cosa di cui si possa essere colpevoli è di aver ceduto sul proprio desiderio”
Source: Il seminario. Libro VII: L'etica della psicoanalisi
Source: Écrits
Source: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960
“S'il n y a pas de rapport sexuel c'est que l'Autre est d'une autre race.”
“The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.”
Source: Écrits: a selection
“The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.”
“Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension”
Source: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis
“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?”
“For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.”
“Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.”
Source: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis
“The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.”
Source: Écrits: a selection
“The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom”
Source: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
“I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.”
Source: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 2: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 19541955
Source: Écrits: a selection
“Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.”
“The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.”
Source: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
Source: Écrits: a selection