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Chaosophy - autonomous learning

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on the express condition that no one will question the status of the<br />

family, of the school, etc.<br />

If a psychoanalyst wanted to stop being an accomplice, if he wanted to<br />

bring about this rupture you mentioned, what should he do Your book<br />

gives an answer-perhaps not a completely satisfying one-to this question:<br />

one must "de-Oedipianize" psychoanalysis, replace it by another<br />

institutional practice conceived as an attempt to break down the familialism<br />

of traditional psychoanalysis and create a completely different<br />

psychoanalytical practice. But is it sufficient, in the context of the system,<br />

to avoid giving a hand to authority and repression Is this "de­<br />

Oedipianization" of psychoanalysis possible, is it possible without a total<br />

revolution of psychoanalysis and of the institutional framework of<br />

psychiatry, which, as one of the authors of The Kursbuch Number 28<br />

concerning "the misery of the psyche" very correctly points out, continues<br />

to fight mental illness by repressing the patient How does Anti-Oedipus<br />

operate in this perspective and what can "schizoanalysis" do here<br />

The problem once again is to avoid considering the institutions of<br />

psychiatry and psychoanalysis as confined arenas. We remain in<br />

some sort of "social objectity" as if there were a particular battle to<br />

fight with the workers in the factories, another in hospitals with the<br />

sick, yet another in the University with the students, etc . ... We<br />

must question this "containing-contained" approach of institutions<br />

which are supposed to be filled with people. Sociologists and technocrats<br />

see things that way. The problem of the University-we<br />

certainly found out in May '68-is not the students and the professors;<br />

it is the problem of the entire society inasmuch as it<br />

involves the relationship between the transmission of knowledge,<br />

the training of executives, the desire of the masses, the requirements<br />

of industry, and, finally, everything which could intermingle<br />

in the setting of the University. What was the magnificent answer<br />

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