Chaosophy - autonomous learning

their inherent revolutionary significance. He exposes the action of
the repressors or regressors in their role as representatives of "the reactionary
social elements" that insinuate themselves into dreams by the
help of associations originating in the preconscious and that of screen
memories originating in waking life. Now these associations do not
belong to dreams any more than do the memories; that is precisely
why the dream is forced to treat them symbolically. Let there be no
mistake, Oedipus exists, the associations are always Oedipal, but precisely
because the mechanism on which they depend is the same as
for Oedipus. Hence, in order to retrace the dream thought, which
shares a common lot with sleepwalking insofar as they both undergo
the action of distinct repressors, it is necessary to break up the associations.
To this end, Trost suggest a kind of a la Burroughs cut-up,
which consists in bringing a dream fragment into contact with any
passage from a textbook of sexual pathology, an intervention that reinjects
life into the dream and intensifies it, instead of interpreting it,
that provides the machinic phylum of the dream with new connections.
The risk is negligible, since -by virtue of our polymorphous
perversity, the passage selected at random will always combine with
the dream fragment to form a machine. And no doubt the associations
re-form, close up between the two components, but it will have
been necessary to take advantage of the moment, however brie£ of
dissociation to cause desire to emerge, in its nonbiographical and
nonmemorial nature, beyond as well as on this side of its Oedipal
predeterminations. And this is indeed the direction indicated by
Trost or Luca in several superb texts: bringing out an unconscious
alive with revolution, straining towards a being, a non-Oedipal man
and woman, the "freely mechanical being," "the projection of a
human group still to be discovered," whose mystery resides in its
function and not in its interpretation, the "wholly secular intensity
of desire" (there has never been such a thorough denunciation of the
authoritarian and pious nature of psychoanalysis).9 In this sense,
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