Chaosophy - autonomous learning

Discussion
Felix Guattari: I think that it was Bassi who proposed-if I have
understood it correctly-a program inspired by David Cooper
which consists of making love everywhere, as an alternative to
getting mired in discourse. Of course, I'm in agreement with this! But
perhaps it is necessary to clarify that "making love" is not restricted
to interpersonal relations. There are all kinds of ways to make love:
one can make it with flowers, with science, with art, with machines,
with social groups ... Once the personological framework of Oedipal
sexuality is shattered, a nonhuman transsexuality is established
in the social realm, that is to say, through a multiplicity of material
and semiotic fluxes. It's the entire individual libidinal economy
closed back onto itself that is put into question. From this point of
view, I am not at all certain that Laing and Cooper have made a very
significant breakthrough. It seems to me that they very quickly lock
the libido back up into a system of intrafamilial communications. I
think that they are overly influenced by American communications
theorists. Let us say, to proceed quickly, that it is not information
but transformation that is at stake here.
I would like to say to Emmanuele Amadio that there are all sorts
of equivalents of psychoanalysis that are used to arrive at the same
result: the neutralization of desire. One proceeds by reterritorializing
it on familialism, on a technique of the body, on group therapy, on
mystical practices, etc. Until a new order is achieved, psychoanalysis
will remain the mastermind, the implicit frame of reference for
these efforts. And this is happening even in the United States, where
psychoanalysis has not gone off on a structuralist tangent, and
where it tends to pale in significance next to body techniques and
mysticism. In the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries
there is a budding interest in psychoanalysis, but they are trying to
adapt it to local conditions. In all likelihood, the goal will be to
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