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“The one, alas, or happily, is the condition of the other.”
― Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression

“Thinking it over, one's life is both the longest possible and the shortest possible, simultaneously, because it can be rethought and reexperienced in a moment, always in that moment in which such a (bold) thought occurs to one. Always wanting the impossible and left with the possible in his minimal existence, the individual always finds himself in the lowest depths of dissatisfaction. Nevertheless he always manages to create another life situation for himself, probably because he really loves life, just as it is. We always crave something other than we can have, than we have, other than what is suitable for us, and so we're unhappy.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Correction

“The other prejudice that psychoanalysis leads us to necessarily renounce is, as already mentioned, the notion of the distinction between a deeply hidden and truthful reality, on the one hand, and a deceptive appearance, a directly accessible surface, on the other. To be sure, the didactic opposition between manifest and latent content allows for a limited interpretation, thereby sustaining this prejudice. Yet, notice how in the course of our reading one and the same term turns out in fact, upon analysis, to support the truth and its veiling.”
― Serge Leclaire, Psychoanalyzing: On the Order of the Unconscious and the Practice of the Letter

“Far from offering us a Copernican recentering, it is quite clearly a Ptolemaic recentering that Kant wishes to effect—far from intuition on one side and concepts 'conforming to the object' on the other, he would rather turn things around and claim that it is the object which 'conforms' to the 'constitution of our faculty of intuition' and our 'a prior concepts.' I do not wish to discuss here the significance of Kantian idealism, but I cannot fail to be troubled by the fact that a movement of radical decentering is being invoked to a support a no less radical recentering.”
― Jean Laplanche, Essays on Otherness