Lacan, Jacques

"Meaning is never given; it must be constructed."

"The unconscious creates gaps in consciousness."

"What is repressed returns as symptom."

"The analyst must not judge, only listen."

"There is no essence beneath appearance."

"Names fix identity in the symbolic."

"The speaking subject is always split."

"Jouissance exceeds all moral law."

"The couple is a fantasy construct."

"Language wounds the body with meaning."

"The unconscious is always elsewhere."

"Speech acts create social reality."

"Castration is the condition of subjectivity."

"The trace remains where meaning slips."

"Authority rests on the name-of-the-father."

"Desire circulates between subjects."

"The symptom is a message to the Other."

"Language forces the subject into being."

"One can only speak of what one doesn't know."

"The Real is the kernel of impossible truth."

"Identification is the first mode of relation."

"The subject emerges at the junction of nature and culture."

"Silence is not the absence of speech."

"Hysteria is a form of truth-telling."

"The analyst must maintain productive ignorance."

"What cannot be said returns in symptoms."

"The other person is always a construct."

"Language is the substance of civilization."

"The body speaks what speech cannot."

"Psychosis reveals the limits of language."