“When philosophizing you have to descend into the old chaos and feel at home there.” Wittgenstein

"Everybody is a prisoner. The only way out of the prison is death of the ego or death period.” J Lacan

In analysis people finally realize that they’ve been talking nonsense at full volume for years. Jacques Lacan My Teaching p71

The principal; not of mastered, but of ‘master-ized’ discourse, with a hyphen, is to think of oneself as univocal. And surely it is psychoanalysis that leads us to say that the subject is not univocal. JL My Teaching 1970 p103

“There are good marriages, but no delightful ones.” Jacques Lacan quoting François de La Rochefoucauld, Seminar V, Formations of the Unconscious, page 121 Illustration by John Holcroft

Love is…but the desire to be One which leads us to the impossibility of establishing a relationship between “them two” Jacque Lacan S XX

Don’t think that the situation is any better for the man. It’s even more comical. The phallus, he has it, the poor bastard, & indeed it’s the knowledge that his mother doesn’t have it that traumatises him – for then, since she is much stronger, where does that leave us? JL SV

One might even say that the masculine ideal and the feminine ideal are represented in the psyche by something other than this activity/ passivity opposition… strictly speaking they spring from the term … masquerade JL S. XI p193

Have I at least succeeded in conveying to you the…chains that situate at the heart of each of us the gaping place from which the nothing questions us about our sex&our existence. This is the place whr we have to love the neighbor as ourselves bc in him this place is the same.

It is wise not to talk too much rubbish, and one always talks rubbish when it comes to origins Jacques Lacan My Teaching

O trauma envolve não apenas aquilo que aconteceu, mas também a impossibilidade de encontrar no outro um testemunho confiável da experiência.

This is the difficulty faced by anyone I try to bring..close..to the analyst’s discourse… opposite of any declared wish for mastery … I say ‘declared’ not because one has to dissimulate the wish, but because it is easy to spin off into the discourse of mastery. J Lacan 1970

“Socrates was the one who started it. He would deliver knowledge, anyone’s knowledge - knowledge of which he himself was unaware. That resembles what Freud, rather late in the piece, called ‘the unconscious’. In his own way, Socrates wasn’t such a bad analyst.” Jacques Lacan

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Man no longer looks like a dog wagging its tail or a courageous masturbating monkey. He doesn’t resemble anything anymore. The Word devastates him.