The problem is not that humans do not recognize their own nature, but rather the opposite: The problem is that they see much more to be their own nature than is actually the case. They have the curious tendency to see themselves and their freedom in everything they do

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Lacan’s position is that only lesbians are true heterosexuals, while gays and straight heterosexuals are homosexual.

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objet a designates what is in an object more than this object itself, its unreachable core—… what causes love is some elusive je ne sais quoi in the beloved, some X that cannot be pinned down to any perceptible particular feature of the beloved

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this X does not exist in itself, it is the inscription of my desire into the object (which is why, as they say, a human being appears sublime only to the gaze of the subject in love with him/her).

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the attitude of ‘understanding-each-other’ has to be supplemented by the attitude of ‘getting-out-of-each-other’s-way’, by maintaining an appropriate distance, by implementing a new ‘code of discretion’

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I move in a social space where I interact with others, obeying certain external ‘mechanical’ rules, without sharing their inner world. Perhaps the lesson to be learned is that, sometimes, a dose of alienation is indispensable for the peaceful coexistence of ways of life.

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The true function of the Name-of-the-Father..is..to allow the subject to “symbolically kill” the father, to be able to abandon father..and freely set on one’s own path in the world. …Kafka’s reluctance to assume the Name-of-the-Father is.. indication of his failure to break off

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