Chaosophy - autonomous learning

calling him the initiator and originator of the mobilization. Suddenly
Guattari had become an international figure, the Daniel
Cohn-Bendit of Italy. He had been made into not just a star, but
a superstar.
However, this gathering did not offer any clear outlook to a
movement which fell back on its own after September, confronted
anew with repression and isolation. For lack of prospects, the entire
protest movement in Europe was being subjected to an increased
repression, and the various governments gave themselves an adequate
legal arsenal to impose their politics of oppression more
efficiently. In France, it was the "antiriot" law; in Italy, a law promulgated
by the President of the Republic in August 1977 carrying
new "provisions in matters of law and order" reinforced the central
juridical instrument of Italian repression: the Reale law, dating
back to 1975, which already allowed police custody for an unlimited
duration. It became necessary to organize vigilance with respect to
the violations of freedoms, and the CINEL, equipped to instantly
alert the intellectuals, kept watching the situation.
Close to but Distinct from Antipsychiatry
La Borde and antipsychiatry have often been wrongly associated
together, with the clinic in Loir-et-Cher (sixty miles South of Paris)
presented as a landmark of this movement, French style. But listening
to its director, Jean Oury, is enough to convince the most reticent
that a wide gulf separated the institutional psychotherapy enforced
at La Borde, inspired by the teachings of Francrois Tosquelles, from
the theses of antipsychiatry. La Borde unashamedly practiced
psychiatry.27 In fact, the positions taken by Guattari in this debate
manifested a proximity to every current aiming at subverting
psychiatry. He was much more receptive than Oury to the theses
of antipsychiatry, in particular to the political questioning of the
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