The problem is a question of what happens to boys when they’re excluded from the everyday conditioning, from the fast – but meaningless – track reserved for the deserving body.

This conviction – which I sometimes call “the communist Idea” – holds that, after the inevitable abandonment of tradition has been accepted, in the very process of this abandonment, we must work to create an egalitarian symbolization that will guide, code, and form the peaceful subjective basis for the collectivization of resources, the effective

Essentially, to corrupt youth means only one thing: to try to ensure that young people don’t go down the paths already mapped out, that they are not just condemned to obey social customs, that they can create something new, propose a different direction as regards the true life.

Anabasis is the idea that you’re disoriented but that you’ll move toward yourself, find your true self within this disorientation and this departure, and, together with all humanity, create the stages of an egalitarian symbolization.

namely, what you discover when you encounter something that was unforeseeable. For example, when you fall in love for good.

The result is a historic crisis of symbolization, in which young people today are suffering their disorientation.

Its imperative is “Live with this Idea and no other,” whereas the contemporary imperative, let me repeat, is: “Live without any Ideas.”

That subject is given back to him by the shattering.

“The Western way of life is not negotiable.”