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“I love you” “Copy that” @tutehumor

“The bar, like everything involving what is written, is based only on the following – what is written is not to be understood. That is why you are not obliged to understand my writings. If you don’t understand them, so much the better – that will give you

“The psychoanalytic investigation of paranoia would be altogether impossible if the patients themselves did not possess the peculiarity of betraying (in a distorted form, it is true) precisely those things which other neurotics keep hidden as a secret.”

Sigmund Freud, Schreber

“The man, a woman; these are nothing but signifiers.”

Jacques Lacan, Encore, Seminar XX, On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge

Painting by Michael Taylor, 2021

“But, here as always, language betrays the truth. In the formula ‘I want your heart’, as in any metaphor of an organ, the heart is to be taken to the letter. It functions as a part of the body, as, if I may say, part of the innards.”

Jacques Lacan, Seminar X, Anxiety

“Do you love me?”

“That is very subjective”

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“Female sexuality appears as the effort of a jouissance enveloped in its own contiguity in order to be realised in competition with the desire that castration liberates in the male.”

Jacques Lacan, Guiding Remarks for a Convention on Female Sexuality, Art by Erhard Löblein

I have always told you
that it is important not
to understand for the
sake of understanding.
Jacques Lacan, Ethics
Art by Sergey Nehaev

“In many criminals, especially youthful ones, it is possible to detect a very powerful sense of guilt which existed before the crime, and is therefore not its result but its motive. It is as if it was a relief to