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

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Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

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For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence.

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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.

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Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

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The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Psychologist

Born: April 13th, 1901

Died: September 9th, 1981

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