« Suicide is the most definitive means that a human being can use to escape the pain of living and try to defeat the absurd. »

« When the young man leaves the passive-receptive mode, he must meet the other side of reality. Learning to suffer, to tolerate suffering and to inflict it if necessary, allows you to burst the cozy bubble of addiction that you are trying to form around you. Mutilation leads to violent contact with the reality of the universe, which is often spared to men as long as they live under the gaze of mothers, regardless of their age. »

« Behind its apparent brutality, mutilation expresses a very simple truth: to become a true human being, one must accept to enter the world of contingencies where nothing will be spared, as if human matter were to be corrupted and opened for the essence to emerge from it. `...` ... tribal mutilation is responsible for transmitting a meaning that goes beyond the mutilator as well as the mutilated. The ancestral rite of passage is in accordance with the fundamental laws of the psyche which requires the self to sacrifice its blind reign in order to open itself to the universe. »