The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

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

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

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

Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.

I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.