Jacques Lacan

"The symbolic order creates difference through signification."

"Love is a response to the existence of the Other."

"Ethics emerges from the real encounter with otherness."

"Time is the dimension of becoming subject."

"The future anterior structures human anticipation."

"Trauma is what cannot be symbolized."

"The impossible is what one must aim for."

"Identification is always partial and misrecognized."

"Speech is always split and contradictory."

"The analyst's silence is a form of speech."

"One speaks when one has nothing to say."

"The other sex is forever mysterious."

"Mathematics is the only universal language."

"Topology reveals the structure of the psyche."

"The borromean knot unites the three orders."

"Writing precedes speech in the symbolic order."

"The debt to the Other is infinite."

"Freedom is bound by structure."

"Authority cannot be established without the symbolic."

"Desire is metonymy and metaphor combined."

"The subject is an effect of signification."

"One must not flee from the real."

"Enjoyment is always excessive and transgressive."

"The father function is essential to symbolization."

"Alienation is the price of being a subject."

"Separation occurs through symbolic castration."

"The drive circulates around its object."

"Satisfaction is found in the repetition itself."

"The gap between demand and desire is infinite."

"Need is satisfied, demand is addressed to the Other."