« `What is a myth?` It is a projection of the preverbal imaginations, of the feeling of living in one's body. When I say mythical, I say beyond the particular imagination of each; it is a meeting of all the imaginary on the same representation. »

« You should know that this is a sign of weakness on the part of the parents, of weakness of their self-control. So that's a bad example for the adult. An adult who speaks with abruptness and aggression, who acts violently and surrenders to characteristic explosions towards his child, should not be surprised, a few months or years later, to see this child speak and act the same with weaker than him. I repeat, for any young child, what the adult does is seen as "good", blindly if I dare say: and the child will imitate him sooner or later, both with regard to the adult himself and towards the other children. »

« Psychoanalysis for me was a philosophical exercise. »