Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

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

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

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

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

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

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.