In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.

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

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?

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.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.