Jacques Lacan Quotes

Jacques Marie Emile Lacan was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst whose return to Freud through structural linguistics reshaped psychoanalytic theory and exerted a wide influence on twentieth-century continental philosophy, literary theory, and feminist thought. His seminars, held in Paris from 1953 onward and published over decades, developed the famous distinctions of the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real, the mirror stage, and the structuring of the unconscious like a language. The quotes below are attributed to Jacques Lacan, organized by topic.