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But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.

Jacques Lacan
Way, Symbolic, Destroyed
Jacques Lacan (2004). “The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis”, p.75, Karnac Books
But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.