Philosophy Quotes

"Meaning is always deferred and displaced."

"Lack is the fundamental human condition."

"The subject is barred by language."

"Repression is the foundation of civilization."

"Psychosis is a foreclosure of the paternal function."

"Perversion is a reversal of the formula of fantasy."

"Discourse determines the subject."

"Hysteria is the question of femininity."

"Obsession is the refusal of desire."

"Feminine jouissance is not-all."

"The father is dead, long live the father."

"The symptom is that which persists in speech."

"Culture requires the sacrifice of jouissance."

"Trauma is what cannot be symbolized."

"Identification is always partial and misrecognized."

"One speaks when one has nothing to say."

"The borromean knot unites the three orders."

"Desire is metonymy and metaphor combined."

"The subject is an effect of signification."

"Enjoyment is always excessive and transgressive."

"The father function is essential to symbolization."

"Alienation is the price of being a subject."

"Separation occurs through symbolic castration."

"The drive circulates around its object."

"Satisfaction is found in the repetition itself."

"The gap between demand and desire is infinite."

"Need is satisfied, demand is addressed to the Other."

"Jouissance is what exceeds meaning."

"The real always returns to the same place."

"Convention is the law of language."