The son’s crucified body is the radical figure of the infinite God’s initiation into terrifying finitude.

boys are at risk of never becoming the adult they contain within themselves, while girls are at risk of having always already become the woman-adult that they ought to actively become.

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

This law is that of the market, which is characterized by equating everything with everything else, by being an anonymous law, with the result that the figure of the father has been cut off from it, and any control of the sons is itself a-symbolic.

but philosophers have a duty to be attentive not just to what is going on but to what, in their own experience, strikes them as most unusual, unique, exceptional: as a sign pointing to what is to come rather than to what merely is.

But humanity has perfectly mastered artificial reproduction, without the need for mating or males. So, for the first time in human history, the end of the male gender is a real possibility.

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

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.

the woman question cannot be determined by the demands of contemporary capitalist societies.