The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.

I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For me the break was first Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a breathtaking performance.

You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When you tell a psychiatrist his mental institution came from a lazar house, he becomes infuriated.

Political power goes much deeper than one suspects; there are centres and invisible, little-known points of support; its true resistance, its true solidity is perhaps where one doesn't expect it.

Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

Visibility is a trap.