Knowledge Quotes

"Deconstruction is not destruction; it is a careful reading of internal contradictions."

"The archive fever consumes us with desire for origins we cannot reach."

"Interpretation knows no final resting place."

"The archive is our quarrel with finitude."

"We must not wonder whether it is possible for us to know the world; we must instead ask how this world is given to us."

"To understand is to perceive a new whole."

"To perceive is to become aware of meaning."

"Knowledge is always situated, never abstract."

"Jouissance is beyond pleasure."

"Transference is the unconscious at work in analysis."

"Meaning emerges through difference, not presence."

"Analysts must be willing to be fooled."

"Psychoanalysis is not a cure but a practice of truth."

"Meaning is never given; it must be constructed."

"The analyst must not judge, only listen."

"One can only speak of what one doesn't know."

"Psychosis reveals the limits of language."

"Knowledge is not understanding, it is merely information"

"Knowledge without conscience is the ruin of the soul"

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."

"You can tell an intellectual man by the sound of his voice."

"The further one advances in knowledge, the further one sees the limits of knowledge."

"Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting."

"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."

"Sexuality is neither a natural fact nor a pure construction of knowledge."

"I am interested in the way that we understand ourselves, the way we are invited to understand ourselves."

"Knowledge about sexuality is never innocent; it is always bound to power."

"The archives of knowledge reveal the contingency of what we take for granted."

"To understand how something came to be is the first step toward changing it."

"Knowledge is always implicated in relations of power that give it meaning and effect."