The Mirror Stage As Formative

...desire, A Function Central To All Human Experience, Is The Desire For Nothing Nameable. And At The Same Time This Desire Lies At The Origin Of Every Variety Of Animation. If Being Were Only What It Is, There Wouldn’t Even Be Room To Talk About It. Being Comes Into Existence As An Exact Function Of This Lack.

The Knowledge That There Is A Part Of The Psychic Functions That Are Out Of Conscious Reach, We Did Not Need To Wait For Freud To Know This!

For The Signifier Is A Unit In Its Very Uniqueness, Being By Nature Symbol Only Of An Absence.

Writings Scatter To The Winds Blank Checks In An Insane Charge. And Were They Not Such Flying Leaves, There Would Be No Purloined Letters.

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.