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“Narcissistic identification leaves the subject, in infinite beatitude, more than ever exposed to the obscene and ferocious figure that analysis calls the superego.”
Jacques Lacan, Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
“Since we have signifiers, we must understand one another, and this is precisely why we don’t understand one another. Signifiers are not made for sexual relations. Once the human being speaks, it’s stuffed, it’s the end of this perfection, this harmony, in copulation.” JL
“When Freud came to explore the relationship between guilt and transgression, he came to the view that the casual chain between them was sometimes the opposite of what we would ordinarily suppose. Common sense would have it that one feels guilty because ...
“Ma, where do you feel love?”
“In the past, baby”
@tutehumor
I think where I am not, therefore
I am where I do not think.
I am not wherever I am
the plaything of my thought.
I think of what I am where
I do not think to think.
Jacques Lacan, Écrits
@tyler_spangler
Sigmund Freud in a suitcase full of erogenous zones:
“Civilisation tried to repress sexual impulses.”
“I infinitely prefer the society of animals to the society of humans, for animals are so much simpler. They do not suffer from a divided personality, from the disintegration of the ego that arises from man’s attempt to adapt himself to standards of civilisation too high for ...
“Nothing, I just wanted to see what it was like to come here when I’m all good” @tutehumor
“The child’s symptom is a response to what is symptomatic in the family structure. In this context a symptom can be defined as representing the truth. A symptom may represent the truth of the family.”
Jacques Lacan, Note on the Child @GiselleDekel