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.

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

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.

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?