Quotations

“[The phenomenon of madness] is inseparable from the problem of signification…”

“I have within myself, as you have within yourselves, what there is that is delusional in the normal man”

“Madness, you are no longer the object of the ambiguous praise with which the sage furnished
the impregnable burrow of his fear.”

“There is a perfectly coherent discourse of madness…”

“…the first symptom that the subject brings to analysis is his ego, his delusion of identity”.

“To be an analyst is to know that your own world, your own phantasm, your own way of making sense, is delusional.”

“…the truth is precisely what’s worth bothering others about. Lacan was no stranger to this.”

“This is the perspective I call generalised delusion.”

“Not only can man’s being not be understood without madness…”

“…a delusion can be considered an accentuation of that which each one carries within oneself, and which can be written as delusIon (deliryo).”