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.

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

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

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.

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.

My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.

The unconscious is structured like a language.