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

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.

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

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

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.

All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.

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