Chaosophy - autonomous learning

negation that is found in the logic of consciousness. It is a mental
world where rigid oppositions don't have to apply, where self and other,
man and woman, parent and child can-and actually do-exist simultaneously
in the same person. What matters then, is not the existence
of reified, polarized entities, but rather processes that Gilles Deleuze
and I have called "becomings." Becoming-women, becoming-plants,
becoming-music, becoming-animals, becoming-invisible, becomingabstract
... The "primary processes" of the Freudian unconscious
(whose reductionist interpretations, based on normalized noetic
structures patterned on dominant coordinates and signification we
cannot condone) only gives us access to a universe of transformations
of an incorporeal nature: when everything appears to he stratified
and definitively crystalized, it introduces virtualities of meaning and
praxis that are extrinsic to the opposition realitylrepresentation.
For example, if it happens that a patient tells his analyst about a
problem concerning his boss or the President of the Republic, one
can be sure that only mechanisms of paternal identification will be
called forth. Behind the woman post-office official, or the female
television announcer, will loom the maternal imago, or a universal
structural matheme. More generally, behind all the forms that come
to life around us, the different analytical schools only locate sexual
symbols and references to symbolic castration. But in the long run,
such a one-track reading obviously loses its appeal.
If the symbolic father is often lurking behind the boss-which is
why one speaks of "paternalism" in various kinds of enterprises-there
also often is, in a most concrete fashion, a boss or hierarchic superior
behind the real father. In the unconscious, paternal functions are
inseparable from the socio-professional and cultural involvements
which sustain them. Behind the mother, whether real or symbolic, a
certain type of feminine condition exists, in a socially defined
imaginary context. Must I point out that children do not grow up
cut off from the world, even within the family womb The family
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