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“This man is so humble that in his autobiography he barely mentions himself” @tutehumor
“Even when the domestic bond is sublimated, the imago of the maternal womb continues to play an important psychic role in the life of the subject.” Jacques Lacan, Family Complexes, 1938 @Heather_Horton
“I drink to forget but I haven’t got enough money so I keep remembering” @tutehumor
“Let us illustrate what we are dealing with here, namely, the being of the subject, that which is there beneath the meaning. If we choose being, the subject disappears, it eludes us, it falls into non-meaning. If we choose meaning, the meaning survives only deprived of that ...
“If it wasn’t for language that introduced being, the whole of being, where would this idea come from? I don’t know if man would think that he is if it weren’t for the word ‘being’.”
Jacques Lacan, The Lacanian Phenomenon
Art by Venus Mansion with apologies to Michelangelo
“Carlos, I must remind you that we have resumed face-to-face sessions”
Lucy Van Pelt (the amateur psychiatrist): “I wish I had a secret admirer. Someone who would send me flowers & little notes & things like that. And then, all of a sudden, he would tell me who he was”
Sally Brown (Charlie's little sister): “Then you’d need another secret admirer”
Jacques Lacan on his paper ‘The Lacanian Phenomenon’: “It’s obviously a weakness to have accepted this title.”
“I've learned to control myself, and now only get angry on demand” @tutehumor
“Furthermore, the satisfaction of need appears here only as a lure in which the demand for love is crushed, throwing the subject back into a kind of sleep in which he haunts the limbo realm of being, letting it speak in him.” Jacques Lacan, Écrits