Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.
Jacques LacanThe evil eye is the fascinum, it is that which has the effect of arresting movement and, literally, of killing life. At the moment the subject stops, suspending his gesture, he is mortified. This anti-life, anti-movement function of the terminal point is the fascinum, and it is precisely one of the dimensions in which the power of the gaze is exercised directly.
Jacques LacanWhat could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?
Jacques LacanIf psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.
Jacques Lacan