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

I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.

I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.

The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.

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

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.