Lacan, Jacques

"The subject is barred by language."

"Civilization is built on repression."

"Real trauma cannot be symbolized."

"The Other is always already lost."

"Meaning emerges through difference, not presence."

"The symptom is what the body says when speech fails."

"Lack is the fundamental human condition."

"The ego is the seat of illusion."

"Love and hate are two sides of the same coin."

"Language divides the subject from itself."

"There is no complete closure of meaning."

"The subject is an effect of language."

"Desire creates the subject retroactively."

"One writes to escape from insanity, not to create it."

"The Real is what resists symbolization."

"Analysts must be willing to be fooled."

"The fantasy sustains the subject."

"Language is the condition for the unconscious."

"Repetition compulsion reveals desire's true nature."

"The subject needs an Other to exist."

"Speech is always insincere because language is incomplete."

"The symbolic order excludes some real."

"Women are not-all subjected to the symbolic order."

"Psychoanalysis is not a cure but a practice of truth."

"The letter is the essence of difference."

"Failure is the truth of analysis."

"The mother must become the object of loss."

"Language always leaves something unsaid."

"The Real emerges as impossible."

"Culture sublimes primitive aggression."