Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

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.

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

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

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

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

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.