Is it possible to write something new about an author who has always accompanied his work with his own commentary? In this article, I tried to rise to the challenge by avoiding two pitfalls: on the one hand, that of Psittacism—which consists of repeating the author’s theses by forcing them into a system—and, on the other hand, that of the Reduction to a unified line of thought that would have been underplaying the heterogeneity and pluralism of the theses in question. This led me to highlight some of the issues related to the tactics that Roland Barthes developed in his work: a tactics that will have no other objective than to free oneself from the blackmail of the theory and the delirium that alienate its pretenders.