« Phallic woman, phallic mother Woman fantasmatically equipped with a phallus. such an image may take two main forms depending on whether the woman is depicted either as carrying an external phallus or a phallic attribute or as having kept the male phallus within herself. »

« I looked like those tourists who go from site to site, from a church portal to a castle without leaving their eyes their blue or green guide, trying to check if what is in front of them corresponds to what is inscribed in the guide. They can't see anything. They refuse to allow themselves to be absorbed, even for a few moments, by what is there, within reach of their gaze, offered. They trust the guide more than they trust themselves, they don't know how to perceive. »

« However, there is no question of denying it, this heavy surname. It would have been to deny my father, whose name does not appear in any dictionary, only, forever, in my memory. Throughout my teenage years, I had to resolve this contradiction: to be, above all, my father's son and not be at any price the descendant of his family. No doubt to keep the image alive in me, and to me alone- no, not the image: the presence of this beloved-loving father, who died very young, I had to flee all the members of a family that had committed the unforgivable fault of not being him. »