The unconscious is structured like a language. - Jacques Lacan

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Today it is very popular to do a thing we call channeling. People are trying to channel entities and have these beings come through them. In my estimation this is downright ridiculous and dangerous.

Jacques Lacan

The unconscious is structured like a language.

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Love means giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.

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. . . Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.

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All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.

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

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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.

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