The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

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

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.

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