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What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table? ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#convincing #could #face #gesture #laying

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

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#arrangement #artificially #broken #could #emphasis

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation. ↗

— Christian Lacroix

#books #dressed #everything #generation #going

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

— Jacques Lacan

#formative #function #i #mirror #psychoanalytic

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#doubles #drama #fact #in fact #narration

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#communication #emphasize #evanescent #form #given

Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#goes #letter #like #must #objects

We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie. ↗

— Nick Lachey

#control #going #lie #people #quit

I tell people, Don't take my advice. What do I know? ↗

— Nick Lachey

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