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

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

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.

Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

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!

But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.