Mike’s Reviews > The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955 > Status Update

“As Gide says in THE COUNTERFEITERS, there is nothing more profound than the superficial, because there isn’t anything profound.” (p. 153)

“There’s a horrendous discovery here, that of the flesh one never sees, the foundation of things, the other side of the head, of the face … Spectre of anxiety, identification of anxiety, the final revelation of YOU ARE THIS …” (Irma’s dream, p.154)