Jacques Lacan

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

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.

Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?