“I will say at once that the ‘uncanny’ is that class of the terrifying which leads back to something long known to us, something once very familiar.”

Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny, 1919, page 2

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"The neurotic is an ill person who is treated by speech, above all his own speech.

He must speak, recount, explain himself.

Freud defined psychoanalysis as the subject’s assumption of his own history, insofar as this history is constituted by the words addressed to another person.

Psychoanalysis is the realm of speech, there is no other remedy.”

Jacques Lacan, Panorama, 1974

The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud

James Strachey
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Mark Solms psychoanalyst neuropsych
Translator

Sigmund Freud
Original Author

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The Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud

James Strachey
Translator

Mark Solms psychoanalyst neuropsych
Translator

Sigmund Freud
Original Author

“If what Freud discovered has a meaning, it is that the signifier’s displacement determines subjects’ acts, destiny, refusals, blindnesses, success, and fate, regardless of their innate gifts and instruction, and irregardless of their character or sex; and that everything pertaining to the psychological pre-given follows willy-nilly the signifier’s train, like weapons and baggage.”

Jacques Lacan, Seminar on The Purloined Letter, Écrits, page 21

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