Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.