Jacques Lacan
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Absence is one half of the fundamental binary opposition (the other half being presence) which characterizes the symbolic order.
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An Affect is as diverse as the pain of existence, hatred, ignorance, mourning, sadness, joyful knowledge, boredom, moroseness, anger, shame, and enthusiasm. Affect involves enigmatic affects such as anguish, love, and the satisfaction related to the end of an analysis.
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An Affect is not a signifier but a signal. Repression does not bear upon the affect (which can only be transformed or displaced) but upon the ideational representative.
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Aggression is not reducible to a biological instinct but gains significance only in language. It is a necessary instrument through which the subject may experience itself as a unified self. In order to maintain its coherence and sense of mastery, it is necessary for the subject to impose this idealized image upon others.
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Alienation is the feeling of dissention between one's perceived visual appearance and one's perceived emotional reality.
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The Analyst is trained to retain whatever is significant, without always knowing what to do with it.
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Anxiety is a topological problem. It puts my being-there in question. Rather than opening me to an existential question of who or what I am, if forces upon me a question of where I am.
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Anxiety is terrible precisely because it is not focused on a particular object but revolves around an absence.
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Anxiety is the cause of doubt. Thus, the true meaning of causality should be looked for in the phenomenon of anxiety.
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Aphanisis is the self-obliteration of the subject. When a subject comes too close to the fantasmatic kernel of their being, the subject loses his/her symbolic consistency and disintegrates.
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Art analyzes the subject (for instance, his reading of edger allan poe's the purloined letter'), rather than, as for freud, something to be analyzed (his reading of e.T.A. Hoffmann's 'the sandman').