Indhold: Thinking about liberty in dark times -- Secularism: "values" at the limits of life -- Liberty, equality, fraternity and... vulnerability -- On parity, again; or, women and the sacred -- From madonnas to nudes : a representation of female beauty -- The passion according to motherhood -- The war of the sexes since antiquity -- Beauvoir, presently -- Fatigue in the feminine -- The sobbing girl; or, on hysterical time -- Healing, a psychical rebirth -- From object love to objectless love -- Desire for law -- Language, sublimation, women -- Hatred and forgiveness; or, from abjection to paranoia -- Three essays; or, the victory of polymorphous perversion -- Atheism -- The triple uprooting of Israel -- What is left of our loves?. The inevitable form -- A stranger -- Writing as strangeness and jouissance -- The "true-lie," our unassailable contemporary -- Murder in Byzantium; or, why I "ship myself on a voyage" in a novel.