Chaosophy - autonomous learning

psyche, or has it remained a sort of "alchemy" whose mysterious
powers have waned with time, and whose simplifications and "reductionism"
(whether in its orthodox currents or structuralist offshoots)
are less and less tolerable
After years of training and practice, I have come to the conclusion
that if psychoanalysis does not radically reform its methods and
its theoretical references it will lose all credibility, which I would find
regrettable on several counts. In fact, it would hardly matter to me if
psychoanalytic societies, schools, or even the profession itself were to
disappear, so long as the analysis of the unconscious reaffirms its
legitimacy and renews its theoretical and practical modalities.
The very first thing which must be thought anew is the conception
of the unconscious itself Today the unconscious is supposed to
be part of everone's essential baggage. No one doubts its existence. It
is spoken about in the same way as memory or will, without anyone
wondering about what it really is. The unconscious is supposed to be
something at the back of the head, a kind of black box where mixed
feelings and weird afterthoughts accumulate; something that should
be handled with care.
Certainly professional psychoanalysts are not content with such
a vague consideration. Explorers or guardians of a domain they
consider to be their own, covetous of their prerogatives, they consider
that access to the world of the unconscious can only be made
after long and costly preparation, with a sort of strictly controlled
asceticism. In order to succeed, didactic analysis, like ordinary analysis,
demands much time and the use of a very particular apparatus
(e.g., transference between analyst and analysand, controlling anamneses,
exploring identifications and fantasies, lifting resistances
through interpretation, etc.).
No one seems to wonder why this unconscious, supposedly
loged at the core of every person, and referred to in connection
with a great variety of domains like neuroses, psychoses, daily life,
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