“The symptom has without doubt a special place in the formations of the unconscious. It is not at all a formation of
We know that right to the end, Freud kept the status of the unconscious as a hypothesis, in any case as not
(About the X-Symptom) “I propose to make a contrast between the symptom as truth and the symptom as jouissance. The symptom as truth
If we do not take the unconscious as the subject of the unconscious, we take it as a memory where all is
The unconscious is not what is singular in each individual. And it is in order to grasp this that Lacan lodges it
« It must be that after the egos resistance has been removed the power of the compulsion to repeat – the attraction exerted
« The repressed is to be counted as belonging to the id and is subject to the same mechanisms; it is distinguished from
“ ‘When…the space of a slip has no scope of meaning (or interpretation) anymore, it is only then that we know that
On the concept of fault, which has nothing to do with guilt, he (Lacan) indicates what the law of all interpretation is
« The process of dream-work, then, is something entirely new and strange, nothing resembling which was known before. It has given us our
