Jacques Lacan

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

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.