Jacques Lacan Quotes on Mind
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. This page collects quotes attributed to Jacques Lacan on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Jacques Lacan:
“The unconscious is structured like a language.”
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Attributed to Jacques Lacan:
“Desire is always desire of the Other.”
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Attributed to Jacques Lacan:
“The mirror stage is a drama whose internal thrust is precipitated from insufficiency to anticipation.”
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Attributed to Jacques Lacan:
“The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.”