"when he speaks, it is the big Other who speaks (or, rather, keeps silence) through him; he is not..."

“when he speaks, it is the big Other who speaks (or, rather, keeps silence) through him; he is not just another subject, he occupies the empty place of death. The analyst’s silence stands for the absent meaning of the patient’s talk,”



- LESS THAN NOTHING - SLAVOJ ZIZEK on the function of silence in the psychoanalytic session - silence as the experience of the smallness of the Other, the lover, the friend, the parent http://alterities.tumblr.com/post/114276922342