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

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.

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

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.