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“I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.”

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Jacques Lacan
Jacques Lacan

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. more

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