Jacques Lacan

"The symptom is our most faithful companion."

"Identity is always borrowed from the Other."

"What we call truth is always an effect of language."

"The analyst must know how to not help."

"Love is the demand to be recognized by someone who cannot recognize us."

"The real insists at the edges of meaning."

"The unconscious is structured like a language."

"There is no sexual relationship."

"I love humanity, it is mankind I cannot stand."

"A letter always arrives at its destination."

"The real is that which resists symbolization absolutely."

"Woman does not exist."

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

"The symptom is a metaphor."

"Desire is the desire of the Other."

"There is no Other of the Other."

"The subject is constituted in the field of the Other."

"Language is not immaterial; it is a material substance."

"Anxiety is the only affect that doesn't deceive."

"The symbolic order determines the subject."

"One must speak of the impossible."

"Transference is the phenomena in which the subject mistakes the analyst for the Other."

"The phallus is a signifier."

"Castration is symbolic, not literal."

"The mirror stage is crucial to identity formation."

"Jouissance exceeds pleasure."

"The Name-of-the-Father is the fundamental signifier."

"Neurosis is a question the subject poses to themselves."

"The analyst must not interpret too quickly."

"Analysis must work with the real of language."