Jacques Lacan Quotes

Jacques Lacan
French Psychologist
Born: Apr 13, 1901
Died: Sep 9, 1981
Could Experience Freud Man Us You
Related authors: Abraham Maslow B. F. Skinner Carl Jung Erich Fromm Jordan Peterson Sigmund Freud Viktor E. Frankl Wayne Dyer
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe? Jacques Lacan
Relationship You Matter Universe Gives None Does How Lovers Them Many
What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table? Jacques Lacan
Face Gesture Table More Moreover Laying Could Up Than Convincing Cards
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. Jacques Lacan
Man Words Language First Before Other Birth Born Given He Deals Caught His Existence In Other Words Who Even
Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly. Jacques Lacan
You Believe Symptoms Those Recognize Seem Directly Take Because Isolated Irrational Want Them Manner Interpret
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence. Jacques Lacan
Nature Only Absence Very Being Uniqueness Unit Symbol
Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there. Jacques Lacan
Man Thought Since Go Freud Where Center
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
Knowledge Wait Psychic Out Part Reach Know Freud Did Functions Conscious Need
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
Man Communication Submission Object Given Absent Split Emphasize Him However May Form Naturally Evanescent Symbols

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