Quotation

"The unconscious and human desire permeate our representations and create a permanent state of instability and disruption at the very heart of our culture. The continuing relevance and value of Lacanian psychoanalysis is to hold open that space and to refuse the "ideological" closure of a unified, harmonious, conflict-free subject or society (...)"

Sean Hormer, 

"Jacques Lacan", London Routledge, 2005, p. 128

(in the series "Critical Thinkers")