“It is indubitable that the symbolic is the basis of what was made into God.

It is certain that the imaginary is based on the reflection of one semblable in another.”

Jacques Lacan, A love letter, Seminar XX, Encore, On Feminine Sexuality, The Limits of Love and Knowledge

Fine auteurs do psychoanalysis

“We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency.”

Andrei Tarkovsky

Psychoanalysis at the movies

“Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. There’s no escape.”

Robert De Niro being Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese, 1976

“There is no such thing as Woman, Woman with a capital W indicating the universal.”

Jacques Lacan, Encore, Seminar XX, On Feminine Sexuality, The Limits of Love and Knowledge

Roxana Halls, Threesome (Self-Portrait), 2018

Post-Easter rabbits in psychoanalysis

Fine poets do psychoanalysis

A WORD.

A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.

Emily Dickinson

Jacques Lacan’s Graph/Tee Shirt of Desire

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Berggasse 19, Vienna - the birthplace of psychoanalysis and now the Sigmund Freud Museum

“This barred subject never deals with anything by way of a partner but object a inscribed on the other side of the bar.

He is unable to attain his sexual partner, who is the Other, except inasmuch as this partner is the cause of his desire.”

Jacques Lacan, Encore, Seminar XX

“The upshot is that one could say that the more a man can believe a woman confuses him with God - in other words, what she enjoys - the less he hates, the less he is, and since, after all, there is no love without hate, the less he loves.”

Jacques Lacan, Encore, Seminar XX

Charlie (Charles M. Schulz) Brown to Snoopy: “I’ve developed a new philosophy… I only dread one day at a time!”

By Charles M. Schulz