“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”
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“I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.”
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“I love you, but, because inexplicably I love in you something more than you - the object petit a - I mutilate you.”
― The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
― The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
“Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.”
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“But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death of loss.”
― Between Two Fires
― Between Two Fires
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