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

I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.

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.

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary.

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.

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

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