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

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.

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.

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

The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.

The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.

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