from Cannibal Margin from Régis Michel's "Alibi?" in the introduction to Julia Kristeva's The Severed Head

But is repudiating the ghost enough to domesticate the darkness?

The public only condescends to the mythical splendor of illustrious patronymics, tutelary figures in a beatific Pantheon where ritual reverence prevails over visual pleasure, if not existential experience. And scholars only react to this dissonant language in the panicked mode of a closet Freudian, which consists of refusing to see the difference in order to preserve the integrity of a world ruled exclusively by the law of the same.