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"We always understand too much, especially in analysis. Most of the time, we're fooling ourselves. One thinks one can do a good therapeutic analysis if one is gifted, intuitive, when one has made contact, if one puts to work the genius which each person deploys in an interpersonal relation. And from the moment one doesn't demand extereme conceptual rigour of oneself, one always finds some way to understand."

"be very careful not to understand the patient, there is no surer way of getting lost."

"sometimes paths of thought are mysterious, those of the Lord are unfathomable."

reading lacan is kinda like reading milton because sometimes he seems to be so self aggrandizing but he really is every bit as good as he imagines himself to be

lacan is such a genius, it's sickening

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hashtag needing to ask syd to help me with any and all mathematics and geometry concepts

people don't talk nearly enough about how funny lacan is

i can't believe i have to relive the experience of having annoying students interrupt a lecture with their stupid questions here (o mannoni & m hyppolite)