Lacan sans contexte

Tenaciously lying implies a sustained memory.

We have always been, in a certain measure, strangers to our own lives.

Whatever may be imagined from the rumors one sometimes hears about what I am teaching: I am not overdoing things for you.

We know that beauty limps.

Interpretation is not put to the test of a truth that can be settled by a yes or a no; it unleashes truth as such.

The tetrad is four. Naturally, semblance, truth, enjoyment, and surplus enjoyment cannot be added together.

It is jurisprudence and nothing else that grounds good feelings.

It’s only after the Word is made flesh that things start to really take a turn for the worse.

Anxiety is the truth of sexuality, that is, what appears each time its ebb tide washes back and lets show the sand beneath.

I say these difficult things, knowing that the inaptitude of my listeners puts them at ground level with them.

The gift that you give is always the gift you have received.

Man no longer looks like a dog wagging its tail or a courageous masturbating monkey. He doesn’t resemble anything anymore. The Word devastates him.

That is all human beings ask for, that the lights be kept dim.

What presents in the subject’s yearnings, tendencies and libido, is always branded with the mark of a signifier.

It still remains rather mysterious that during certain periods of children’s lives, whether they are male or female, they feel they have to be afraid of lions, despite the lion not being an object they commonly meet in their experience.

In reading Freud today, it certainly seems that the first step of the whole of his dialectical movement is constituted by the gap of an emptiness.

Man is always cultivating a great many more signs than he thinks. That's what the Freudian discovery is about.

What impasse had we reached last time?

If the symbolic function functions, we are inside it. And I would even say—we are so far into it that we can't get out of it.