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.”
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“There are thoughts in this field of the beyond of consciousness, and it is impossible to represent these thoughts other than in the same homology of determination in which the subject of the I think finds himself in relation to the articulation of the I doubt.”
The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho Analysis (1978) | The Unconscious and Repetition