Relationships Quotes

"Understanding another viewpoint requires that we genuinely encounter it, not merely learn about it."

"Dialogue opens us to transformation, which is why it is always risky."

"Every genuine encounter with another person or text transforms us."

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

"The Other is the place where speech happens."

"The stranger within us is the condition for any genuine encounter with the other."

"Hospitality begins where we make space for the absolutely other."

"The other's gaze calls me into being before I call myself."

"The other person's consciousness is not a direct given; it can only be inferred."

"The other person is not a mere object of my perception, but a subject like myself."

"The self is constituted through our interactions with others."

"The other's existence challenges and transforms me."

"The other person's gaze is constitutive of my self-awareness."

"We are always already in relationship with others."

"There is no such thing as a sexual relationship."

"Man's ego is formed through identification with others."

"The Other is always already lost."

"The subject needs an Other to exist."

"The couple is a fantasy construct."

"Desire circulates between subjects."

"The other person is always a construct."

"Hell is other people"

"In order to get any feeling of security or love, we have to betray ourselves"

"The individual is nothing without society"

"I discover that I am the object of another's freedom"

"We are not lovers, we are fighters."

"If I were a woman, I would never want to fool with a man if he wasn't willing to get on his knees."

"The stranger is not someone outside society but within it, producing difference."

"We create ourselves through our encounters with what is other."

"To understand another is never fully possible, but the attempt creates meaning."