« The realization of desire is not a matter of objective realities. It depends on our power to satisfy ourselves and our right to satisfaction, that is, the freedom to implement the relational acts of our body. The objective realities invoked as objects of lack and lust — usually inaccessible — are all traps set at the cure to mask (and thus to maintain) the inhibitions associated with these acts, traps that — how often! — will hold the desire prisoner for life. »

« When the baby feels that his destructive impulses and fantasies are directed towards the total person of his beloved object, guilt appears in all his strength and, with it, the need, impossible to satisfy, to repair, preserve, to revive the beloved object "damaged". »

« It was Ferenczi who introduced me to psychoanalysis, taught me its true nature and meaning. He was endowed with an immediate and profound sensitivity to the unconscious and symbolism, an astonishing intuition for all that touches the childlike soul; he helped me, through his example that marked me, to understand the psychology of the young child. It was again he who signalled to me my skills for the analysis of children, whose progress interested him to the utmost, and who encouraged me to devote myself to this field, still so little explored at the time, of psychoanalytic therapeutics. »