Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.
Jacques LacanIn 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.
Jacques LacanI am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.
Jacques Lacan