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"But the sinthome is not a construction, it is what I am. I am a sinthome. This is what “to recognize one’s being as sinthome” means; it is to recognize that one is a sinthome. Miller, reading Lacan line by line, adds the following: "by taking its guarantees and a kind of distance.""

"An analysis taken to its term goes through these successive stages: suggestion …., awakening …., dupery (to go back to sleep in the right way, remaining alert thanks to the new use of the signifier Real, which, because it excludes meaning, allows us to not overly believe in truth), mourning …., then to know one’s symptom"

"An analysis does not have to be pushed too far. When the analysand thinks he is happy to live, that’s enough.” It must be understood that this happiness of living, this satisfaction, is a satisfaction of the One."

"What is the first lie, the proton pseudos, of psychoanalysis? Lacan points
to it when he says that it is attention: as soon as one focuses attention on
it, one is outside it. The proton pseudos is the analyst himself, that is, the
insertion of another subject into the relationship that you entertain with
the real unconscious"

"One might say that on the side of history there exists time that is not
only chronological, that is lived in the continuity of its existence, and that
on the other side, there is something extratemporal, which arises when the
temporal flux is interrupted." This is invaluable when it comes to the thesis of THE ATEMPORAL CHARACTER OF PSYCHOSIS.