#ex

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. ↗

— Andre Breton

#appeals #attempts #examples #exist #making

Children need explanations and they deserve explanations. ↗

— Todd Bridges

#deserve #explanations #need

A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit? ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#allow #development #does #geometry #heterogeneity

Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#demanding #does #endless #even #find

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#being #capture #dimension #experience #grasp

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#birth #born #caught #deals #even

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#arbitrary #aside #believe #conception #even

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#formative #function #i #mirror #psychoanalytic

We have so much left to experience and learn about each other - it's almost like we've been remarried with the show being over. Now it's a whole new life for us. ↗

— Nick Lachey

#almost #been #being #each #experience

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#conversation #e-mail #exchange #intimate #more