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!

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

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.

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.

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

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.