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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.