Chaosophy - autonomous learning

wouldn't the highest aim of the MLFpo be the machinic and revolutionary
construction of the non-Oedipal woman, instead of the
confused exaltation of mothering and castration
Let us return to the necessity of breaking up associations: dissociation
not merely as a characteristic of schizophrenia but as a
principle of schizoanalysis. The greatest obstacle to psychoanalysis,
the impossibility of establishing associations, is on the contrary, the
very condition of schizo analysis-that is to say, the sign that we
have finally reached elements that enter into a functional ensemble
of the unconscious as a desiring-machine. It is not surprising that
the method called free association invariably brings us back to
Oedipus; that such is its function. Far from testifying to a spontaneity,
it presupposes an application, a mapping back that forces a
preordained ensemble to associate with a final artificial or memorial
ensemble, predetermined symbolically as being Oedipal. In reality,
we still have not accomplished anything so long as we have not
reached elements that are not associable, or so long as we have not
grasped the elements in a form in which they are no longer associable.
Serge Leclaire takes a decisive step when he sets the terms
of a problem which, in his words, "everything ipels us not to
consider straight in the face ... What is involved, in brief, is the
conception of a system whose elements are bound together precisely
by the absence of any tie, and I mean by that, the absence of any
natural, logical, or significant tie," "a set of pure singularities."ll But,
mindful of the need to remain within the narrow bounds of psychoanalysis,
he takes the same step backwards: he presents the
unbound ensemble as a fiction, its manifestations as epiphanies,
which must be inscribed in a new restructured ensemble, if only
through the unity of the phallus as the signifier of absence. Yet here
indeed was the emergence of the desiring-machine, that which
distinguishes it both from the psychic bonds of the Oedipal apparatus,
and from the mechanical or structural bonds of the social
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