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Lacan, Seminar XI

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All speech is a request or demand for something missing, as lacking in some respect. Ultimately, as Lacan puts it, all speech constitutes a demand for love. Whenever we speak, we are unconditionally asking to be heard, we are asking for our request to be recognized, we are asking to be responded to, we are asking to be loved.

Bruce Fink - Lacan on Love: An Exploration of Lacan's Seminar VIII, Transference

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Lacan, Seminar XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis

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“I speak without knowing it. I speak with my body, and I do so unbeknownst to myself. Thus, I always say more than I know.” - Jacques Lacan, Seminar XX

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“in saying that the obsessive is characterized by an impossible desire (to attain an unattainable status… to complete an uncompletable project, or to possess what he cannot possess), Lacan goes so far as to add that his desire is for impossibility itself.” - Bruce Fink, Lacan on Love