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 reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

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.

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.

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.

If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.

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.