Jacques Lacan

"The truth cannot be stated without remainders."

"Meaning is always deferred and displaced."

"The unconscious emerges in speech and silence."

"Lack is the fundamental human condition."

"The subject is barred by language."

"Repression is the foundation of civilization."

"The ego is an illusion created in the mirror stage."

"Psychosis is a foreclosure of the paternal function."

"Perversion is a reversal of the formula of fantasy."

"One must traverse the fantasy."

"The ethical act is beyond the law."

"Discourse determines the subject."

"The master signifier commands all other signifiers."

"Hysteria is the question of femininity."

"Obsession is the refusal of desire."

"The real cannot be imagined, symbolized, or even approached."

"Semblance is the fabric of human relations."

"Teaching is an impossible profession."

"The university discourse reproduces knowledge without truth."

"Capitalism makes a discourse out of semblance."

"The analyst's position is one of radical passivity."

"Recognition is forever impossible between subjects."

"The letter must always arrive at its destination, even if deviated."

"Feminine jouissance is not-all."

"The father is dead, long live the father."

"Speech is action."

"Listening is the analyst's primary tool."

"The symptom is that which persists in speech."

"Culture requires the sacrifice of jouissance."

"The imaginary order mistakes similarity for identity."