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

...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.

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

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.

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.

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

The I is always in the field of the Other.