Because, while the son eventually reaches a place where full reconciliation with the father is achieved – the son consubstantial with the father, the son who sits at the right hand of the father, etc. – he only does so after completing three stages: the immediate, violent stage of aggression; the symbolic stage of submission to the law; and the fin

“Work, Family, Homeland,”

The power of departure. Building and leaving. There’s no contradiction between them. Being able to give up what you’re building because something else has beckoned you toward the true life. The true life, today, beyond market neutrality and beyond the old, outdated hierarchical ideas.

By the way, I would say that one of the characteristics of our society is to make old age as invisible as possible. Little by little, the real father is being relegated to this social invisibility.

“Consume if you can afford to; otherwise shut up and get lost.”

This infantilization of adults could be said to be directly linked to the influence of the market, because life, in our society, is to some extent the possibility of buying.

But what is the family? Already in Plato there were three major social functions: producing, reproducing, and defending.

First, the perverted body. This means taking onto one’s body itself the mark of the end of the old dialectic.

That would be the triumph of what might be called a Christianity without God.