“There is no progress. All that is gained on one side is lost on the other. As one does not know what has been lost, one thinks one has won.”
- Jacques Lacan (1975)
“There is no progress, because there cannot be any.
Man goes round in circles if what I say about his structure is true, because the structure - the structure of man - is toric.”
Jacques Lacan, Seminar XXIV, “Love Is the Failure of the Unbewoops”