“Before there is science, there are stories to explain the world. They make it happier somehow.”
― American Girl: Memories That Made Me
― American Girl: Memories That Made Me
“I did not realize the dreadful facts of life. I did not know that a pattern forms before we are aware of it, and that what we think we make becomes a rigid prison making us.”
― The Millstone
― The Millstone
“For once desire is articulated in words it does not sit still, but displaces, drifting metonymically from one thing to the next. Desire is a product of language and cannot be satisfied with an object.”
― A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique
― A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique
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