« It can be considered that `to give up his adult responsibility` is to let your children down (at a critical time). At this game of life, you abdicate precisely when they come to kill you. Is there anyone happy then? Certainly not the teenager who becomes the one on whom we rely. The activity of the imagination is lost, the struggle of immaturity ceases. Rebelling no longer makes sense, the teenager who wins too early is caught in his own trap. He must turn into a dictator and wait to be killed - to be killed, not by the new generation of his own children, but by that of his brothers and sisters. Naturally, he seeks to exert control over them. »

« Is there a difference between the hallucinatory phenomenon that is the sign of a disease and the one that means nothing like that? »

« The love of the mother or therapist does not only mean meeting the needs of addiction, but comes to mean something else: to provide the opportunity for this baby or patient to move from addiction to autonomy. »