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“And in whom does God believe?” @tutehumor

“On the basis of Lacan’s formulation of paranoia as the localisation of jouissance in the place of the Other, we can consider paranoia to be a treatment of jouissance that seeks to clear an inhabitable space for the subject by situating an unmanageable jouissance in an ...

“The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three. The three tyrants are the external world, the superego and the id.”

Sigmund Freud, New Introductory Lectures

“The agoraphobic patient imposes a restriction on his ego so as to escape a certain instinctual danger - namely, the danger of giving way to his erotic desires. The symptomatology of agoraphobia is complicated by the fact that the ego does not confine itself to making ...

to these prohibitions bearing on the use of the phallus, & this is the symbolic function of the phallus. I mean that the fact of whether it is there or not there, and solely in so far as it is there or not there, is what sets up the symbolic differentiation between the sexes.” JL

Truth is pleasure-giving
Which sets it apart from the real
The real does not give pleasure
Jacques Lacan, The Sinthome

“Every dream will reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of significance, and one which may be assigned to a specific place in the psychic activities of the waking state.” Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it as an object.” Jacques Lacan @GiselleDekel

“I’ve already told you that I don't want to study English, Papa. Channel your frustrations elsewhere” @tutehumor

“Letting his desire for a woman be seen can clearly be anguishing on occasion. Why so? In passing, I would ask you to note the distinction between the dimension of ‘letting something be seen’ and the voyeurism/exhibitionism couple. There isn’t only showing and seeing ...