Lacan, Jacques

"Language shapes what we can think."

"The ego is the seat of illusions."

"Love is accepting the other's incompleteness."

"The symptom is the royal road to truth."

"The unconscious is structured like a language, and within this structure lies the truth of our being."

"Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it."

"There is no metalanguage; we are always already caught within language."

"The real is what resists symbolization absolutely."

"Man's desire is the desire of the Other."

"I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object."

"The symptom is a metaphor whether one likes it or not."

"Psychoanalysis is not a cure for the human condition."

"A letter always arrives at its destination."

"The phallus is the signifier of signifiers."

"Transference is love in the margins of knowledge."

"There is no sexual relationship; there is only the discourse of sexuality."

"Language is where being emerges and disappears."

"The real must be distinguished from reality."

"Anxiety is not a response to an object; it is a response to the Other."

"The subject is not some meta-linguistic substance; it is an effect of language."

"Neurosis is a solution, not a problem."

"The Other exists only insofar as it is represented in the symbolic order."

"Repression is the primordial condition of the unconscious."

"One must pass through the fantasy to arrive at desire."

"The gap between demand and desire is where love emerges."

"Hysteria is the most profound truth about the human condition."

"The analyst must occupy the position of the object petit a."

"Language divides being into the speaking and the spoken."

"There is no jouissance without the law."

"The subject is barred from full presence to itself."