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“Don't you understand that with that damn self-criticism that you have, you take away my most precious right?” @tutehumor
“It is Antigone herself who fascinates us, Antigone in her unbearable splendour. She has a quality that both attracts us and startles us, in the sense of intimidates us; this terrible, self-willed victim disturbs us.”
Jacques Lacan, Ethics, and tomorrow: https://t.co/wwaEPRC5qG
“Things might go badly”
“But what’s worse is that things might go well”
@tutehumor
“There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know.”
Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Lacan on Antigone:
“The text alludes to the fact that the desire of the mother is the origin of everything. The desire of the mother is the founding desire of the whole structure, the one that brought into the world the unique offspring that are ...
“Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counter-glance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and...
Sigmund Freud to his doctor in 1923:
"I can't think without my cigars."
He has just been diagnosed with cancer of the jaw.
Freud will continue smoking for the rest of his life - 16 years - and undergo approximately 30 surgical procedures.
“So, Sisyphus, where do you see yourself in five years’ time?”
“I have been inclined to regard the Surrealists, who have apparently chosen me for their patron saint, as complete fools, but that young Spaniard (Salvador Dalí) with his candid, fanatical eyes and his undeniable technical mastery, has changed my estimate”
Sigmund Freud in 1938