Lacan, Jacques

"The analyst must become a blank screen."

"Psychosis is not neurosis; it is a foreclosure."

"The subject splits with every act of speech."

"Meaning is always deferred; there is only difference."

"One must name the real to contain it."

"The symbolic order is sustained by the father's name."

"Repetition is not simple recurrence; it is return."

"The Other's desire is what sets our desire in motion."

"Language wounds because it separates us from being."

"The imaginary offers false unity; the real disrupts it."

"One speaks to fill the void the real creates."

"The symptom is the subject's truth."

"Jouissance exceeds pleasure and enters suffering."

"The unconscious is the discourse of the Other."

"One must fail to understand to understand."

"The real has the structure of traumatic encounter."

"Speech acts as a substitute for satisfaction."

"The father's function is to limit desire."

"One cannot escape the symbolic order; one can only navigate it."

"The object-cause of desire is forever lost."

"Language is what makes us human and inhuman."

"The analyst must not give false hope; hope is the last refuge."

"Meaning emerges through the gaps in speech."

"One is always already in the symbolic order."

"The real cannot be represented, only approached."

"Desire is what remains after need is satisfied."

"The subject is constituted by lack, not presence."

"One speaks to the dead in every analysis."

"The imaginary makes life tolerable by concealing the real."

"Interpretation is an act of creation, not discovery."