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“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”

@tutehumor

“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

“Of what I called the non-relation, Freud had the idea, despite his reduction of the genital to the fact of reproduction. Isn't this, in fact, what he articulates of the difference between the drive that he calls phallic and that which he claims to exist from the genital? Would

Fine writers do psychoanalysis:

“What happened to the love that we said would never die?” she asked.

“It died,” he said.

Snoopy, unpublished manuscript

“The question of das Ding (the Freudian Thing) is still attached to whatever is open, lacking, or gaping at the centre of our desire.” JL Sem VII

@janabrike, The Centre of The Universe (The Origin of the World)