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myriad of machinic systems that expropriate the processes of<br />

singularization and fold them back over standardized-real as<br />

much as imagined-territorialities.<br />

This model of the unconscious is not opposed point-by-point<br />

to the old psychoanalytic model. It takes up some of its elements,<br />

or, at least, reshuffles them as variants or exemplars. Actually, an<br />

unconscious pattern really does exist within an intrapsychic<br />

"familialized" space where certain mental materials elaborated<br />

during early stages of psychic life are tied together. No one can<br />

deny that such a place where hidden and forbidden desires, a sort<br />

of secret kingdom, a state within the state exists, which seeks to<br />

impose its law over the whole psychism and its behaviors. But this<br />

formula, a private individualized and Oedipal unconscious,<br />

assumes premier importance in developed societies where most of<br />

their power depends upon systems of guilt and internalizations of<br />

norms. Still, I repeat, a new kind of analysis must discover and<br />

promote what could only be a variant to the notion of the unconscious,<br />

realigned according to other possiblities.<br />

The Freudian model of the unconscious, one recalls, obeyed a<br />

double movement: 1) repulsing "representative drives" that the<br />

unconscious and the preconscious could not tolerate (utterances,<br />

images, and forbidden fantasies); 2) attracting those which originate<br />

in always already repressed psychic formations (originary repression).<br />

Thus forbidden contents had first to travel through the conscious<br />

and the unconscious before falling into something like an "unconscious-discharge"<br />

governed by a particular syntax called the "primary<br />

processes" (for example the condensations and displacements at the<br />

heart of dreams). This double movement did not allow for creative<br />

processes that would be specific to the unconscious. (Freud: "The<br />

dream Work is never creative.") Everything there was played out in<br />

advance, every possible path marked out: the psychoanalytic unconscious<br />

was programmed like destiny.

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