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The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that a

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this! – Jacques Lacan

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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. – Jacques Lacan

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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. – Jacques Lacan

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Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. – Gene Wolfe

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All along we find that social life – religion, politics, art – reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. – James M. Baldwin

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The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. – William Hazlitt

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The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life. – Ernst Mach

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