4 Quotes by Bruce Fink

For once desire is articulated in words it does not sit still, but displaces, drifting metonymically from one thing to the next. Desire is a product of language and cannot be satisfied with an object.

Lacan even goes so far as to classify ignorance as a passion greater than love or hate: a passion not to know.

It is when patients begin to throw such things into question-when the what, why, and who of their utterances become problematic to them-that they are genuinely engaged in analysis.

Desire is an end in itself: it seeks only more desire, not fixation on a specific object.29.