Lacan, Jacques

"What we repress always returns."

"Meaning is never final."

"The body is inscribed in language."

"Madness is a way of knowing."

"The father's name is the law."

"Desire thrives on impossibility."

"The symptom speaks what cannot be said."

"Speech is always incomplete."

"Love is the only thing that approaches the real."

"The unconscious never lies."

"Transference is the essential mechanism of analysis."

"The real emerges through failure."

"Language is the gift and the curse."

"Civilization is built on repression."

"The Other's gaze constitutes the self."

"Anxiety signals the encounter with the real."

"Meaning is not given, it is created."

"The analyst listens to what is not said."

"Being emerges from the gap in knowledge."

"Love is a catastrophe for the ego."

"The truth of the subject is his desire."

"Language is the first form of violence."

"The real resists all symbolization."

"What is repressed returns as symptom."

"The subject is divided by language."

"Repetition is the motor of analysis."

"The other's desire is my desire."

"Being is always being-for-the-other."

"The real is the obstacle to symbolization."

"Desire is born in the mother-child separation."