What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?

Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated. All our lives we come back to them in our daydreams. A psychoanalyst should, therefore, turn his attention to this simple localization of our memories. I should like to give the name of topoanalysis to this auxiliary of pyschoanalysis. Topoanalysis, then would be the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection