« The term "missing," which I use in the title of this volume, is much more general than the term "absent"; The meaning I give to the expression "missing father" covers as much the psychological absence as the physical absence of the father, it means as much the absence of mind as the emotional absence; it also contains the notion of a father who, despite his physical presence, does not behave in an acceptable manner. »

« ... to say nothing that the silence of the father and the son's complaint was already announced by the Christian myth. The central myth that guided us in the last millennium of our evolution is astonished by the absence of the father. At the beginning St. Joseph will see his fatherhood denied and he will participate very little in the active life of his son Jesus. He will not be found at the bottom of the cross with Mary and the other apostles. And it is Mary holding her dead son in her arms that Michelangelo will immortalize in his pieta. Christ's last word on the Cross, perhaps no more explicit: "Father why have you forsaken me?" »

« If we don't talk, we won't survive. »