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

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.

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

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

The evil eye is the fascinum, it is that which has the effect of arresting movement and, literally, of killing life. At the moment the subject stops, suspending his gesture, he is mortified. This anti-life, anti-movement function of the terminal point is the fascinum, and it is precisely one of the dimensions in which the power of the gaze is exercised directly.

Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!