The I is always in the field of the Other.

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.

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.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.

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.

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?