History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Truth is error burned up.

To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead.

The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.