Jacques Lacan Quotes

Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'

Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older.

The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference.

When I was in junior high school, friends and I were in a consciousness-raising group, a term that now seems quaint like a butter churn, but it was very powerful. It was a really wonderful experience.

Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.

People often think that looking in the mirror is about narcissism. Children look at their reflection to see who they are. And they want to see what they can do with it, how plastic they can be, if they can touch their nose with their tongue, or what it looks like when they cross their eyes.

I think I am attracted to that time in life when your worldview is still forming in small ways.

What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?

I don't like catching myself in the mirror because it's like, 'Oh, self.'

I think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.

It's easy to feel like you don't have any control over yourself or your life or your body as a teen - everything is changing so fast, and a lot of it feels so outside of your power. I think that's why a lot of teens form really strong attachments to fictional characters or celebrities, draw their own characters or write themselves into fan fiction.

It was only when I got to 21 that my personality started coming out a little bit more.

I am transgender. I knew that I was for as long as I can remember.

I first read Sigmund Freud's 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle' as a young girl, and it helped me to understand that there are thousands of possible ways to interpret our experience, that everything has a meaning, and that interpretation is the key to reality. This was the first step to becoming a writer.

I have this idea of myself that I decided when I was 12 about who I am and how I come across and what the world is like. And if I have changed or the world has changed, I don't even notice sometimes because I'm holding on to these old ideas. I am more confident - the music is proof. But I can see the change there much easier than I do as a human.

I had always known I was female, since I was 7 years old.

It took me a while to learn how to spell my own name.

Everything about who I am, negative and positive, is what shaped me.

As you grow, you learn and talk about different things.

Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?

If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

Art is a way of recognizing oneself.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.