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I can feel myself under the gaze of someone whose eyes I do not see, not even discern. All that is necessary is for something to signify to me that there may be others there. This window, if it gets a bit dark, and if I have reasons for thinking that there is someone behind it, is straight-away a gaze.
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All sorts of things in the world behave like mirrors.
Jacques Lacan, ‘Seminar II’
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Desire is always what is inscribed as a repercussion of the articulation of language at the level of the Other.
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… it is worth restating that in the test of writing I am thinking: ‘therefore I am,’ with quotes around the second clause, it is legible that thought only grounds being by knotting itself in speech where every operation goes right to the essence of language.
Jacques Lacan, Écrits, trans. Bruce Fink
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I love you, but, because inexplicably I love in you something more than you … I mutilate you.
Jacques Lacan, Seminar XI, trans. Alan Sheridan
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the unconscious is structured like a language.
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Reality is for those who cannot tolerate the dream. “Reality” is a fantasy-construction which enables us to mask the Real of our desires.
Jacques Lacan - The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (Harmondsworth, 1979)
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A pony for whoever scrawled those REDRUM-esque letters on poor ol’ Jacques. For appreciators of such puerile beauty, loltheorists can be gold.
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