« The desire to interest phallus bearers, men, is shown by identifying the mother in household care, when the mother is a good housewife, and identifying her body with an object adorned with signs that make her look at her by boys, or at least they imagine her. The knots in the hair, even now where it is no longer fashionable. The necklaces, the bracelets, and she is full of ingenuity to make herself all these sharpeners which are overcompensations of the absence of her penis, but which also prove the centripetal dynamics of attracting to oneself the eyes and attention of men. »

« It is here, often, that male masochism is played out in a complicated way, in the fact that it must refuse to a mothering regression, when it would often be tempting and above all necessary for the restoration of the fragmentation to which it is much more subject in its fantasies than girls. They're quiet, it's over. There is nothing left to cut. Indeed, the castrating fragmentation, the boy actually risks him in the melee of combat. He risks it in an imaginary way in the erectile fantasies of sexual conquests, since they are always followed by penile flexivity. He also risks it symbolically through his name, in the extramarital actions of his wife, which may taint his name, in the failures of his male siblings that bear his name, his progeny that bears his name. As for his rapprochement with his father, as soon as he drafts it physically and not fantasically, or culturally through symbolic mediation, he can be dominated by the affects that flow from what he projects on the father, the jealousy of his success, the inadequacy of his value compared to that of his father. And when he is in a state of inferiority, for whatever reason, and approaches to be a little mothered by this father, an introductory fear is always there, that of regressing, of becoming a baby; or, if the father is a very strong and verbdated man, the boy is afraid to tell him his weaknesses, for fear of being ridiculed. »

« The boy's narcissism is caught up in the need to defend the erectility of his strong and skilful body, skilful, formidable, while the girl who has accepted his sex seems to fear nothing, except to be assaulted by who does not like him. Also, it develops very well avoidance, prudence, economy, sense of conservation. The camouflage of his treasures too. »