Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.

Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

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.

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.