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.

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.

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

Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.