Jacques Lacan

"The unconscious is structured like a language."

"There is no such thing as a sexual relationship."

"I love humanity, it's people I can't stand."

"One has to be a living man and a posthumous poet."

"The real world is in the real of the imaginary."

"Truth has a structure, it is a fiction."

"Woman is not whole."

"The symptom is a message from the unconscious."

"Language is a virus from outer space."

"There is no metalanguage."

"Psychoanalysis is a misnomer; it should be called metapsychology."

"The Other is always there in my very own speech."

"I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think."

"Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it."

"Freedom is choosing one's chains."

"The Name of the Father is the foundation of the symbolic order."

"Man's desire is the desire of the Other."

"Psychoanalysis presumes that the human being is lost from the start."

"The real is what resists symbolization absolutely."

"Language creates the world."

"There is no big Other."

"One must lose oneself to find oneself."

"The symbolic order precedes and determines the subject."

"Desire is always the desire of something impossible."

"I protect myself by a fiction from the unbearable reality of desire."

"The unconscious knows only the present tense."

"A letter always arrives at its destination."

"Psychoanalysis is not a science; it is something else."

"The phallus is not the penis; it is a signifier."

"Woman does not exist."