Lacan sans contexte
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Remarks whose recreational character must not lead us astray.
There is even a laugh that can come when you suddenly learn of a bereavement.
The more abject the failure, the better the subject remembers it.
Pods Against Tomorrow reinvestigates the noir genre one film at a time. This week, Prof. Ron Brooks joins hosts Hugh Manon and Abe Doubleday-Bush to discuss James Foley's sunbaked Cali noir AFTER DARK, MY SWEET (1990): open.spotify.com/episode/2YsDFl…
A frontier, by separating two territories, has one important defect. It symbolizes that they are the same for whoever crosses it.
It is very odd to say, there's a truly strange incoherence in saying—man *has* a body.
If the symbolic function functions, we are inside it. And I would even say – we are so far into it that we can't get out of it.
Asymmetry in nature is neither symmetrical, nor asymmetrical—it is what it is.
We are all inclined to believe that we are ourselves, but we aren't so sure of it.
Far from being an aggressive reaction, irony is above all a way of questioning.
The death instinct is nothing else, in fact, than there to make us perceive that life is improbable and completely caducous.
Nothing is more important than our misunderstandings.
Man is clearly a major producer of something that, with regard to him, is called care.
Let us pursue the dialectic of frustration.
I named my dog Justine as a homage to Sade—without, you can be sure, my exercising any particular cruelty towards her.
In our time, it is the character of the specialist who intimidates.
The gift that you give is always the gift you have received.
It’s a play on words, that’s true. But I attach great importance to them you know. To me they seem to hold the key to psychoanalysis.
Interpretation is not put to the test of a truth that can be settled by a yes or a no; it unleashes truth as such.