Quotes, Reflections and Questions

-"Sign, symptom, and symbol are sustained not only by the unconscious meaning to be discovered in them, but also by the immediate meaning which they first seem to express" Pp.122- However schematic these considerations may be, they have never-the less a direct echo in our day-to-day practice. In this connection, it would be particularly interesting to define the attitudes, the ways of listening that make up what each of us understands by "free-floating attention." In our view, one would find two very different types of listening, between which most individual cases would fall: we wouldbe prepared to compare them under the rubrics: "the attitude of simultaneous translation" and "the attitude of attention to lacunary phenomena" Pp.124-(a) The unconscious is not coextensive to the manifest as its meaning: it must be interpolated in the lacunae of the manifest text. (b) What is unconscious is in relation to the manifest not as a meaning to a letter, but on the same level of reality. It is what allows us to conceive of a dynamic relationship between the manifest text and what is absent from and must be interpolated in it: it is a fragment of discourse that must find its place in the discourse as a whole." Pp.126