« As the human being grows and develops, the individual engages a little more in the real struggle that is life. »

« `Foreword to the French edition (Jeannine Kalmanovitch` The author also considers that the very archaic defence mechanisms detected in psychosis are closely linked to distortions and essential deficiencies of the environment at a stage of extreme dependence, while it is from a stage of relative dependence, following the establishment of a certain autonomy of the self, that the antisocial tendency points to the antisocial tendency. It appears in reaction to deprivation, to suppression, to the loss of something that existed, which one knew and which the environment ceased to provide. Environmental failure is the root cause of this claim to society. »

« I introduced the terms "transitional object" and "transitional phenomenon" to refer to the area of experience that is intermediate between the thumb and the teddy bear, between oral eroticism and the true objectal relationship, between primary creative activity and the projection of what has already been introjected, between primary ignorance of debt and recognition of that debt ("say thank you!") in transitional objects. 1951. »