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So this is where Bhabha got his language.

"Rupture, split, the stroke of the opening makes absence emerge--just as the cry does not stand out against a background of silence, but on the contrary makes the silence emerge as silence."-Lacan 26

"Impediment, failure, split. In a spoken or written sentence something stumbles. Freud is attracted by these phenomena, and it is there that he seeks the unconscious. There, something other demands to be realized--which appears as intentional, of course, but of a strange temporality. What occurs, what is 'produced,' in this gap, is presented as 'the discovery.'" - Lacan 25

"...hysteria places us, I would say, on the track of some kind of original sin in analysis. There has to be one. The truth is perhaps simply one thing, namely, the desire of Freud himself, the fact that something, in Freud, was never analysed."-Lacan12

"Without this trunk, this mast, this pile, where can our practice be moored? Can we even say that what we are dealing with [in psychoanalysis] are concepts in the strict sense? Are they concepts in the process of formation? Are they concepts in the process of development, in movement, to be revised at a later date?"--Lacan 10-11

"I am not a poet, but a poem. A poem that is being written, even if it looks like an object."—Lacan viii

The human sciences "one sees emerging...the hermetic demand...which seeks the ever new and the never exhausted signification, but one threatened with being trampled under foot by him who finds."—Lacan 7-8

As Picasso once said...I do not seek, I find. Indeed, there are in the field of so-called scientific research two domains that can quite easily be recognized, that in which one seeks, and that in which one finds."—Lacan 7

"the myth God is dead...perhaps this myth is simply a shelter against the threat of castration"–Lacan 27