Jacques Lacan

"One can love something and still criticize it."

"The analysand creates the analyst."

"There is no satisfaction in jouissance."

"Speech is the only true substance of psychoanalytic work."

"Castration is the human condition."

"The symptom is something that persists through all symbolic efforts."

"What is repressed returns as madness."

"The impossible is the only possible path."

"Language is the cause of the unconscious."

"We are always too late for what we seek."

"The Other is always already dead."

"Psychoanalysis cures nothing; it teaches one to live."

"The subject is barred, divided, and incomplete."

"Real love is impossible."

"One must pass through the symbolic to reach the real."

"Jouissance is beyond the pleasure principle."

"The law of the father structures human desire."

"Psychoanalysis reveals that we are all, in a sense, insane."

"One speaks only of what one lacks."

"The analyst's desire is the pivot of analysis."

"There is always a gap between demand and desire."

"Maternity is the real relationship."

"The subject is an effect of the signifier."

"To know oneself is to accept one's fundamental lack."

"Neurosis is a lie agreed upon by analyst and analysand."

"Freedom exists only in speech."

"The unconscious is the discourse of the Other."

"One must have the courage to be oneself, impossible as that is."

"Language makes the human being human."

"Psychoanalysis is not a cure but a tragic knowledge."