Jacques Lacan Quotes on Knowledge
Jacques Lacan's Écrits (1966) and the long-running Seminar (1953–1980) reorganized French psychoanalysis around the Lacanian return to Freud through the conceptual resources of structural linguistics, Hegelian philosophy, and topological mathematics. The unconscious is structured like a language; the subject is constituted as the alienated effect of its insertion into the symbolic order through the mirror-stage and the Oedipal crisis; desire is the desire of the Other rather than the agent's own. The three registers — the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real — supply the analytical grammar within which Lacan's account of psychoanalytic knowledge is articulated, and the framework has been formative for the political philosophy of Žižek, Badiou, and Mouffe and for film and literary theory.
Quotes
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Attributed to Jacques Lacan:
“The unconscious is structured like a language.”
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“Interview in 1957 [ specific citation needed ]”
The man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth. -
“The important thing is not that the unconscious determines neurosis- of that one Freud can quite happily, like Pontius Pilot, wash his hands. Sooner or later, something would have been found, humeral determinate, for example- for Freud, it would be quite immaterial. For what the unconscious does it to show us the gap through which neurosis recreates a harmony with a real- a real that may not be determined.”
The Freudian Unconscious and Ours -
“The Freudian Unconscious and Ours”
The important thing is not that the unconscious determines neurosis- of that one Freud can quite happily, like Pontius Pilot, wash his hands. Sooner or later, something would have been found, humeral determinate, for example- for Freud, it would be quite immaterial. For what the unconscious does it to show us the gap through which neurosis recreates a harmony with a real- a real that may not be de -
“It is not without effect that, even in a public speech, one directs one's attention at subjects, touching them at what Freud calls the navel- the navel of the dreams , he writes , to designate their ultimately unknown centre- which is simply, like the anatomical navel that represents it, that gap of which I have already spoken.”
The Freudian Unconscious and Ours -
“The Freudian Unconscious and Ours”
It is not without effect that, even in a public speech, one directs one's attention at subjects, touching them at what Freud calls the navel- the navel of the dreams , he writes , to designate their ultimately unknown centre- which is simply, like the anatomical navel that represents it, that gap of which I have already spoken. -
“Discontinuity, then, is the essential form in which the unconscious first appears to us as a phenomenon-discontinuity, in which something is manifested as a vacillation.”
The Freudian Unconscious and Ours -
“The Freudian Unconscious and Ours”
Discontinuity, then, is the essential form in which the unconscious first appears to us as a phenomenon-discontinuity, in which something is manifested as a vacillation. -
“The Freudian Unconscious and Ours”
Nature provides-I must use the word- signifies, and these signifies organize human relation in a creative way, providing them with structures and shaping them.