French Psychoanalyst Quotes

Jacques Lacan

Julia Kristeva

Nature is a universal that is shareable by all, males and females, men and women, and can thus be of use in mediating between all. The same does not apply for already constructed worlds and cultures. They are neither universal nor easily shareable.

The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.

An idea upon which attention is peculiarly concentrated is an idea which tends to realize itself.

Charles Baudouin

The text is a practice that could be compared to political revolution: the one brings about in the subject what the other introduces into society.