"The ego is like the superimposition of various coats borrowed from what I would call the bric-à-brac of its props department."

— The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis (New York: Norton, 1991), p. 155.  (via ifiwereahoarder)

On a Lacan kick. I like my Lacan like I like my aeropress coffee: in small doses and heavily filtered 

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