Lacan, Jacques

"Desire emerges in the space between need and demand."

"The imaginary is the locus of illusion and identification."

"Symbolic castration is the condition for entry into human culture."

"The unconscious is the discourse of the Other."

"In analysis, we must work with what is said and what is not said."

"The Name-of-the-Father is the primary signifier."

"Love is an attempt to suture the impossible gap between beings."

"The analyst listens not to what is said, but to what is being avoided."

"Jouissance is what lies beyond the pleasure principle."

"The symptom speaks the truth that consciousness denies."

"Desire is not what we want; it is what keeps us searching."

"The mirror stage is where the illusion of self originates."

"Language creates the distance that makes relationship possible."

"There is no such thing as a sexual relationship, only discourse about it."

"The real cannot be said; it can only be approached through metaphor."

"Psychoanalysis is an art of interpretation, not a science of facts."

"The other is always Other, never fully knowable or possessable."

"Identification is always a misidentification."

"The unconscious is not a place but a structure of language."

"Desire is what remains when all needs are satisfied."

"The symbolic order is the order of difference and substitution."

"Lack is the fundamental condition of human existence."

"One must learn to read the text of one's own unconscious."

"The real is what insists and persists in representation."

"Love is the only response to the impossibility of relationship."

"The analyst's silence is not emptiness but the space of interpretation."

"There is no truth except in how it is articulated in speech."

"The ego is always already alienated from itself."

"Psychoanalysis reveals what the subject does not want to know."

"Desire operates at the level of the signifier, not the object."