Frases de Jacques Lacan

“El psicoanálisis es una cura para la ignorancia.”

“La falta genera al deseo.”

“Sólo el amor hace condescender el goce al deseo.”

“Para hacer tortillas hay que romper los huevos.”

“El analista no hace sino devolverle al analizante (analizante="paciente") su mensaje invertido, como si se tratara de un espejo (en el cual el analizante se puede reconocer).”

“El diálogo en sí mismo es un rechazo a la agresión.”

“Amar es dar lo que no se tiene”

“Traducción: «Todo arte se caracteriza por un cierto modo de organización alrededor de ese vacío.»”

“¿Cómo justificar esa palabra tan imprudentemente comprometida y, hablando con propiedad – de esto, jamás dudó espíritu serio alguno-, insostenible?”

“¿qué puede justificar la fidelidad, fuera de la palabra empeñada? Pero la palabra empeñada a menudo se empeña a la ligera. Sino se la empeñase así, es probable que se la empeñaría mucho más raramente.”

“La femme n’existe pas.”

“La palabra es la muerte de la cosa. (Es decir: con el símbolo queda anulado lo indefinido de algo real y luego con esa muerte de la cosa [de la cual la palabra es memoria] aparece el objeto sustituyéndola).”

“La verdad es el error que escapa del engaño y se alcanza a partir de un malentendido.”

“El deseo es siempre deseo. (Ibid.) significa: el deseo nunca se satisface, cuando parece cumplir su objetivo resurge con otro objeto y así ad infinitum.”

“Cuando el ser querido va demasiado lejos en la traición a sí mismo y perseverar en el engaño de sí mismo, el amor no lo sigue más.”

“Un sujeto es un significante para otro significante.”

“Debajo del significante hay nada". (Téngase en cuenta que Lacan de este modo replantea, con ecos de existencialismo, el signo lingüístico estructuralista de Ferdinand de Saussure — en donde a cada significante corresponde "abajo" un significado —, esta frase es capital para entender a la mayor parte de la obra lacaniana).”

“El deseo nunca se satisface del todo.”

“El sujeto está sujetado al deseo.”

“Un analista no sabe lo que dice, pero debe saber lo que hace.”

“La primera virtud del conocimiento es la capacidad de enfrentarse a lo que no es evidente.”

“Lo obvio suele pasar desapercibido, precisamente por obvio.”

“El síntoma es una metáfora.”

“Nadie habla sino de su propio síntoma.”

“El sujeto no habla sino que es hablado.”

“El analista no es el que sabe, quien sabe es el analizante (analizante=«paciente» según la psicología de visos conductistas), es el supuesto al saber.”

“El analista debe ocupar el lugar del muerto.”

“Pensamos que pensamos con nuestros cerebros, pero personalmente yo pienso con mis pies. Esa es la única manera por la que puedo entrar en contacto con algo sólido. En ocasiones pienso con mi cabeza, como cuando choco con algo. Pero he visto suficientes encefalogramas para saber que no hay indicios de pensamiento en el cerebro", irónica respuesta de Lacan a Noan Chomsky (la ironía tiene un claro significado: Lacan pese a su manejo del lenguaje se maneja con lo concreto mientras que muchos que suponen pensar por "sí mismos", en lo real están masificados, reproduciendo un discurso ajeno con que son instruidos o adoctrinados).”

“Nuestra práctica es una estafa, fanfarronear, hacer pestañear a la gente, deslumbrarla con palabras rebuscadas, es lo que habitualmente llamamos “rebuscado”. (…) Desde el punto de vista ético, es insostenible nuestra profesión; es por eso que me enferma, porque tengo un superyó como todo el mundo.”

“El arte y la palabra suelen estar para velar la falta.”

“El analista debe estar atento a la palabra plena.”

“Sólo los idiotas creen en la realidad del mundo, lo real es inmundo y hay que soportarlo.”

“La realidad es el soporte para el fantasma del neurótico.”

“La relación sexual concluye con lo real.”

“La relación sexual no existe.”

“… Otros los repetiran ¿Y qué quedará de todos mis decires? (…) acaso sean como la abeja fosilizada en el ámbar, de ella podemos tener la imagen pero nunca sabremos de su vuelo (Del prefacio escrito por Lacan en el libro «Lacan» de Anika Rifflet-Lemaire).”

“Pensamos que pensamos con nuestros cerebros, pero personalmente yo pienso con mis pies. Esa es la única manera por la que puedo entrar en contacto con algo sólido. En ocasiones pienso con mi cabeza, como cuando choco con algo. Pero he visto suficientes encefalogramas para saber que no hay indicios de pensamiento en el cerebro.”

“Para ser un psicoanalista basta con abrir los ojos y ver los hechos de la realidad humana.”

“No se puede destruir la voluntad.”

“Los ensueños están pintados como rompecabezas.”

“La discreción es la esencia de la acción.”

“Estoy para decir la reacción de los demás.”

“El propósito del análisis es decir la verdad.”

“El deseo humano encuentra su sentido por el deseo del prójimo.”

“In order to understand the Freudian concepts, one must set out on the basis that it is the subject who is called—the subject of Cartesian origin. This basis gives its true function to what, in analysis, is called recollection or remembering. Recollection is not Platonic reminiscence —it is not the return of a form, an imprint, a eidos of beauty and good,a supreme truth, coming to us from the beyond. It is something that comes to us from the structural necessities, something humble, born at the level of the lowest encounters and of all the talking crowd that precedes us, at the level of the structure of the signifier, of the languages spoken in a stuttering, stumbling way, but which cannot elude constraints whose echoes, model, style can be found, curiously enough, in contemporary mathematics.”

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

“What concerns us is the that envelops these messages, the network in which, on occasion, something is caught. Perhaps the voice of the gods makes itself heard, but it is a long time since men lent their ears to them in their original state—it is well known that the ears are made not to hear with.”

“The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.”

“I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think. I am not whenever I am the plaything of my thought; I think of what I am where I do not think to think.”

“Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.”

“The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom”

“I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.”

“But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.”

“I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.”

“There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore I must destroy you”

“Discontinuity, then, is the essential form in which the unconscious first appears to us as a phenomenon-discontinuity, in which something is manifested as a vacillation.”

“The important thing is not that the unconscious determines neurosis- of that one Freud can quite happily, like Pontius Pilot, wash his hands. Sooner or later, something would have been found, humeral determinate, for example- for Freud, it would be quite immaterial. For what the unconscious does it to show us the gap through which neurosis recreates a harmony with a real- a real that may not be determined.”

“The man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.”

“It is not without effect that, even in a public speech, one directs one's attention at subjects, touching them at what Freud calls the navel- the navel of the dreams, he writes, to designate their ultimately unknown centre- which is simply, like the anatomical navel that represents it, that gap of which I have already spoken.”

“There are thoughts in this field of the beyond of consciousness, and it is impossible to represent these thoughts other than in the same homology of determination in which the subject of the I think finds himself in relation to the articulation of the I doubt.”

“The father, the Name-of-the-father, sustains the structure of desire with the structure of the law- but the inheritance of the father is that which Kierkegaard designates for us, namely, his sin.”

“Nature provides-I must use the word- signifies, and these signifies organize human relation in a creative way, providing them with structures and shaping them.”

“It is on this step that depends the fact that one can call upon the subject to re-enter himself in the unconscious—for, after all, it is important to know who one is calling. It is not the soul, either mortal or immortal, which has been with us for so long, nor some shade, some double, some phantom, nor even some supposed psycho-spherical shell, the locus of the defences and other such simplified notions. It is the subject who is called— there is only he, therefore, who can be chosen. There may be, as in the parable, many called and few chosen, but there will certainly not be any others except those who are called. In order to understand the Freudian concepts, one must set out on the basis that it is the subject who is called—the subject of Cartesian origin. This basis gives its true function to what, in analysis, is called recollection or remembering. Recollection is not Platonic reminiscence —it is not the return of a form, an imprint, a eidos of beauty and good, a supreme truth, coming to us from the beyond. It is something that comes to us from the structural necessities, something humble, born at the level of the lowest encounters and of all the talking crowd that precedes us, at the level of the structure of the signifier, of the languages spoken in a stuttering, stumbling way, but which cannot elude constraints whose echoes, model, style can be found, curiously enough, in contemporary mathematics.”