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If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to speak coherently at all. If the whole of language were present to me when I spoke, then I would not be able to articulate anything at all. The ego, or consciousness, can therefore only work by repressing this turbulent activity, provisionally nailing down words on to meanings. Every now and then a word from the unconscious which I do not want insinuates itself into my discourse, and this is the famous Freudian slip of the tongue or parapraxis. But for Lacan all our discourse is in a sense a slip of the tongue: if the process of language is as slippery and ambiguous as he suggests, we can never mean precisely what we say and never say precisely what we mean. Meaning is always in some sense an approximation, a near-miss, a part-failure, mixing non-sense and non-communication into sense and dialogue.


Terry Eagleton


#consciousness #discourse #failure #freudian-slips #lacan

On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.


Ed Gillespie


#beyond #democrats #discourse #goes #hate

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.


Izaak Walton


#discourse #good #good company #sinews #very

Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods - the violent methods - that were created and encouraged by Bin Laden and others in the world.


Ismail Haniyeh


#cause #counts #created #discourse #encouraged

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.


Jim Lehrer


#comes #discourse #fact #form #i

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.


Saint Francis de Sales


#discourse #good #into #nothing #quick

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.


Harvey Cox


#culturally #discourse #forbidden #forms #last

It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the light of his reason the shadows in which nature had enveloped him, rising above himself, soaring in his mind right up to the celestial regions, moving, like the sun, with giant strides through the vast extent of the universe, and, what is even greater and more difficult, returning to himself in order to study man there and learn of his nature, his obligations, and his end.


Jean Jacques Rousseau


#beauty

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.


Thomas Fuller


#discourse #fools #weather

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.


Jean-Francois Lyotard


#kind #knowledge #scientific #scientific knowledge






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