Lacan, Jacques

"Love requires accepting the radical otherness of the beloved."

"The real insists as trauma, as what cannot be integrated into meaning."

"Psychoanalysis teaches us that we are never at home in ourselves."

"The symbolic order is both the condition of meaning and its limitation."

"One's desire is always the desire of and for the Other."

"Language structures not just what we can say, but what we can think."

"The unconscious is structured like a language."

"I am not mad; my mother, she is mad."

"A letter always arrives at its destination."

"The real is what resists symbolization absolutely."

"Love is giving something you do not have to someone who does not want it."

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

"The symptom is a metaphor."

"One must lose consciousness to attain consciousness."

"Psychoanalysis is not a cure; it is a discourse."

"The subject is barred, marked by language forever."

"What is repressed always returns in some form."

"The phallus is not the penis."

"There is no metalanguage."

"The big Other does not exist."

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

"Speaking being is what matters in analysis."

"The truth speaks through the analysand's silence."

"All discourse creates a master."

"The woman does not exist; she is a symptom."

"Meaning is always retroactive."

"The name is what founds the subject."

"Lack is the condition of desire."

"The real traumatizes because it resists our narratives."

"One must speak to be cured of speech."