“This is what the myth of the Oedipus complex, necessary for Freud’s thought, expresses. Look at it closely. If he is obliged to procure the origin of the law in this mythical form, if there is anything that makes it the case that the law is founded on the father, it is ...

necessary for the father to be murdered. The two things are closely linked – the father, insofar as he promulgates the law, is the dead father, which is to say the symbol of the father. The dead father is the Name-of-the-Father, who is there, constructed over the content.

“What I am telling you is that the subject as such is uncertain because he is divided by the effects of language. Through the effects of speech the subject increasingly realises himself in the big Other, and will simply find his desire ever more divided, pulverised, in ...

“We will not actually get to the point when the gadget is not a symptom, because for the time being it is absolutely obvious that it is one. For sure, when you have a car, as a fake woman, you absolutely insist that it is a phallus, but that has nothing to do with ...

the phallus except that it is the phallus that prevents us from having a relationship with something that would be our sexual partner. This is our parasexual partner, and everyone knows that the ‘para’ entails that everyone keeps to themselves, that everyone remains

“It is worth recalling that it is in the oldest demand that primary identification is produced; the one that occurs on the basis of the mother’s omnipotence – namely, the one that not only makes the satisfaction of needs dependent upon the signifying apparatus, but also ...

Psychoanalysis on the small screen Fleabag: “If you could change anything in the whole world, what would it be?” Boo: “My thighs.” Fleabag: “The whole world?” Boo: “Oh, don’t tell anyone I said that.” Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Jenny Rainsford in ‘Fleabag’, Season 1, 2016