One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person.

[T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated. Where there is desire, the power relation is already present: an illusion, then, to denounce this relation for a repression exerted after the event.

there is no glory in punishing

We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.

One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person.

Unreason is in the same relation to reason as dazzlement to the brightness of daylight itself.

A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation [...] He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribed in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection.