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

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

The 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.

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

I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.

The I is always in the field of the Other.