Lacan, Jacques

"Anxiety is not without an object; it is objectless."

"The analyst must know how to be absent."

"Writing is what inscribes the real."

"The subject is an effect of language."

"Transference is the appearance of truth in the analytic setting."

"One cannot live without the symbolic order."

"The Other is always barred."

"Identification is the earliest emotional tie."

"The imaginary locks us into illusions of completeness."

"Castration is not a threat; it is a structure."

"Language divides being into being and nothingness."

"The mirror stage is when the child alienates itself."

"One must separate from the mother to enter language."

"The analyst is a stand-in for the dead father."

"Neurosis is a work of art."

"The symptom is the real of the subject."

"One speaks to the Other even when alone."

"Desire is always unfulfilled; fulfillment ends desire."

"The real cannot be symbolized; it can only be written."

"Interpretation is not explanation."

"The unconscious knows what the conscious refuses."

"Love and hate are not opposites in the unconscious."

"The father is always symbolic, never actual."

"One must traverse the fantasy to move beyond it."

"The phallic order structures all meaning."

"Speech is a gift that turns into debt."

"The unconscious returns what we have forgotten."

"Enjoyment is what exceeds meaning."

"The real emerges at the limits of language."

"One cannot write what has not been spoken."