Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.

Significance is inherent in the human body.

That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it. . . .

Abjection is above all ambiguity. Because, while releasing a hold, it does not radically cut off the subject from what threatens it --- on the contrary, abjection acknowledges it to be in perpetual danger.

Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.

Love is the time and space where "I" give myself the right to be extraordinary.

Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, the underground world of death that acts upon us, do not have the civilized splendor of the Greek city state. The modern political domain is massively, in totalitarian fashion, social, leveling, exhausting. Hence madness is a space of antisocial, apolitical, and paradoxically free individuation