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.

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.

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.

The I is always in the field of the Other.

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

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

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