« Children are the symptoms of parents. »

« I still want to illustrate the satisfying need but not always desire. For example, a child does not need candy. He asks for a candy for the pleasure that he is taken care of, to be talked to, to be shown that he is loved. It's very interesting to see that if you say to the child, "Well, yes, how would the candy be? Would it be red?" We talk, we start talking for half an hour, we talk about the taste of the candy, according to its red color, or green candy; you can even draw candy. The child forgets that it is a candy he wanted to eat. But what a good conversation about candy! What a good time we had. That's right: he comes to ask you something; he wants to have something, he wants to talk about it, and look how interesting it is to walk in front of a shop window with a child. What a cultural bath for them to talk to the children and play to give themselves in imagination gifts, and also what proof of love. The kid says, "Ah, I wish I had that truck." The mother replies "Ah, no, it's not possible, I don't have any money." Quick, quick, let's not look. She doesn't want him to be tempted, whereas that's what it's like to live, it's to put words on what we're trying to do and talk about it. "That truck, do you think it's good?" Oh, yes. - What's good? - He has red wheels. - Yes, that's good, but the red wheels, it may not roll too. It's not an image, it's a truck, it has to work. We're going to go into the store, you're going to touch it, we're going to look at it today, I don't have any money to pay for it. - Yes, it is. - I don't have it, it's like that, if you prefer we don't come in to see it up close and touch it. Yes, if... When the child sees that the mother is decided: "but, we'll talk about it, etc.", he calms down. What he needs is to communicate in the desire of the truck, in hope and the mother values his desire. It is always necessary to justify the desire of a child, always, always, always. "It's not possible to achieve, but you're absolutely right to want it." Since the world is world, there are idiots who want the moon, but if there had not been idiots who wanted to go to the moon, we would never have gone. »

« The image of the body is the living synthesis of our emotional experiences. It can be seen as the unconscious symbolic embodiment of the desired subject, even before the individual in question knows how to say "I". »