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“The mirror stage is far from a mere phenomenon which occurs in the development of the child. It illustrates the conflictual nature of the dual relationship.”
Jacques Lacan, Seminar IV, The Object Relation
“All of the jouissances are but rivals of the finality that would be constituted if jouissance had the slightest relationship with the sexual relationship."
Jacques Lacan, Encore, Seminar XX, On Feminine Sexuality, The Limits of Love and Knowledge
“The unconscious is fundamentally structured, woven, chained, meshed, by language. And not only does the signifier play as big a role there as the signified does, but it plays the fundamental role. In fact ...
The cure is a demand
that originates in the
voice of the sufferer,
of someone who suffers
from his body or his thought.
The astonishing thing is
that there be a response.
Jacques Lacan
Television
Egon Schiele
Self Portrait
“There is in every case a level at which things do not work out. It’s the level of those who have produced the effects of language, since no child is born without having to deal with this traffic by the intermediary of his beloved so-called progenitors, who were themselves ...
“Freud expresses in the plainest terms, in The Future of an Illusion, in Civilisation and Its Discontents, his repugnance at the idea of universal love.”
Jacques Lacan, Seminar XIX … or Worse