Great Throughts Treasury

"I am not wherever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think."

"As a special mirage, love is essentially deception. It is situated in the field established at the level of the pleasure reference, of that sole signifier necessary to introduce a perspective centred on the Ideal point, capital I, placed somewhere in the Other, from which the Other sees me, in the form I like to be seen."

"The real is what resists symbolization absolutely"

"Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously. "

"Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it. "

"The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom."