Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.

The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.

On Christmas. “Santa Claus represents God on assistance,” said Clyde.”Santa Claus is a negative-idealed god, the pagan god of material worship,” Leon stated. “Christmas means the rebirth, regeneration. Some people have Christmas every day. The...

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

Pyschoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we’re going to, but an idea...

young children, who for whatever reason are deprived of the continuous care and attention of a mother or a substitute-mother, are not only temporarily disturbed by such deprivation, but may in some cases suffer long-term...

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patient’s conversion to the therapist’s interpretation.

I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people’s vanity.

I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or...

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they’re coming apart.

notwithstanding how good a seed my be, it’s proper germination,growth and fruit bearing may be mutilated if not planted in a good soil

This time once again it has been my chief aim to make no sacrifice to an appearance of being simple, complete or rounded off, not to disguise problems and not to deny the existence of...

Lacan wrote about two levels of speaking, one in which we know what we are saying (even when struggling with something difficult or contradictory) and another in which we have no idea of what we...

The notion of dream interpretation far antedates the birth of psychoanalysis, and probably served an important function in most, if not all, historical societies. In having lost this function, modern man has also lost the...