Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.

The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.

Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify freedom if these goods and services sustain social controls over a life of toil and fear – that is, if they sustain alienation. And the spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the controls.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

The psychoanalytic liberation of memory explodes the rationality of the repressed individual. As cognition gives way to re-cognition, the forbidden images and impulses of childhood begin to tell the truth that reason denies.