The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!
More Quotes from Jacques Lacan:
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.Jacques Lacan
The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.
Jacques Lacan
We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.
Jacques Lacan
Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.
Jacques Lacan
Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.
Jacques Lacan
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?
Jacques Lacan
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