Memorin

“Language, the unconscious, the parents, the symbolic order: these terms in Lacan are not exactly synonymous, but they are intimately allied. They are sometimes spoken of by him as the ‘Other’ — as that which like language is always anterior to us and will always escape us, that which brought us into being as subjects in the first place but which always outruns our grasp. We have seen that for Lacan our unconscious desire is directed towards this Other, in the shape of some ultimately gratifying reality which we can never have; but it is also true for Lacan that our desire is in some way always received from the Other too. We desire what others — our parents, for instance — unconsciously desire for us; and desire can only happen because we are caught up in linguistic, sexual and social relations — the whole field of the ‘Other’ — which generate it.”
― Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction

“We live in a world in which there is nothing that cannot be narrated, but nothing that needs to be either.”
― Terry Eagleton, How to Read Literature

“You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.”
― Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right