Lacan, Jacques

"The Other is the place where speech happens."

"One must accept castration to become a subject."

"Language always says more and less than intended."

"The real is the impossible that insists."

"One's being is barred by being named."

"Love is the meeting of two solitudes."

"The analyst's silence is more powerful than speech."

"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."

"The real world is appearance; the symbolic order is reality."

"Woman does not exist."

"Speech is the only place where the subject can emerge."

"The symptom is precisely what you should accept."

"Love is giving something you don't have."

"The name-of-the-father grounds all symbolic order."

"Desire is the desire of the Other."

"A letter always arrives at its destination."

"The whole of philosophy is a symptom."

"Jouissance is beyond pleasure."

"Man's ego is formed through identification with others."

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

"Language precedes the subject."

"There is no metalanguage."

"The paternal metaphor establishes meaning."

"Transference is the unconscious at work in analysis."

"The gaze objectifies; it can be terrible."

"Speech brings the subject into being."

"The phallus is the signifier of lack."

"Dreams are always true; the question is in their interpretation."