一座演化中的島嶼

The subject exists only inasmuch as it identifies with an ideal other who is the speaking other, the other insofar as he speaks. A ghost, a symbolic formation beyond the mirror, this Other who is indeed the size of a Master, is a magnet for identification because he is neither an object of need nor one of desire. The Ego ideal includes the Ego on account of the love that this Ego has for it and thus unifies it, restrains its drives, turn it into a Subject. An Ego is a body to be put to death, or at least to be deferred, for the love of the Other and so that Myself can be. Love is a death sentence that causes me to be. When death, which is intrinsic to amorous passion, takes place in reality and carries away the body of one of the lovers, it is at its most unbearable; the surviving lover then realizes the abyss that separate the imaginary death that he experienced in his passion from the relentless reality from which love had forever set he apart: saved ...
-- Julia Kristeva, Tales of Love

What is essential in the revolutionary is not that he overturns as such; it is rather that in overturning he brings to light what is decisive and essential.
-- Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche

Words trip us, make us swerve, turn us around; we have no other options.
-- Donna Haraway

The screen has no horizons.
-- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The Other, in the final analysis -- you haven't guessed it yet -- is the body.
-- Jacques Lacan

Sexuality is always traumatic as such.
-- Jacques Lacan

Do a psychoanalysis of nature: it is the flesh, the mother.
-- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

It is through the world first that I am seen or thought.
-- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

I am a subject ex-centric to myself.
-- Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The subject is the consequence of the fact that there is a signifier.
-- Jacques Lacan