Chaosophy - autonomous learning

familial power, rectified by psychoanalysis, functions by means of
two primary parts: the symbolic phallus and castration, instruments
of the alienation of woman and child. One recalls the tyrannical
interrogation of Little Hans by his father under the supervision of
Professor Freud. But before that, the mother's resistance must be
subdued, compelling her to submit to psychoanalytical dogma. In fact,
it never crosses her mind to object to her son's coming to join her in
bed whenever he wants. The mother becoming the agent of phallic
power, the attack on childhood is concentrated on the question of
masturbation. One does not accuse him directly of masturbating;
one imposes upon him the good, "castrating" explanation with
regard to this question. One forces him to incorporate a particular
system of signification: "What you desire-we know this better than
you-is to sleep with your mother and to kill your father."
The importance of submitting the child to the Oedipian
code-and this at an early age-does not result from a structural
or signifying effect, separate from history or society. It depends on
capitalism's inability to fi-nd other ways of providing the family
with an artificial consistency. In archaic societies, the child was
relatively free in his movements until his initiation. But in a
capitalist society, initiation begins with the pacifier: the motherchild
relationship tends to be more and more strictly controlled
by psychologists, psychoanalysts, educators, etc. In its older formulation,
power was maintained as a paradigmatic series-fatherboss-king,
etc., culnlinating in a discernible, incarnate, and
institutionalized God. In its present formulation, incarnation is
deterritorialized and decentered. It is everywhere and nowhere, and
it depends on family models to arrange a refuge for it. But in their
turn, the diverse psychoanalytic models of Oedipal triangulation
appear too territorialized with regard to parental images and partial
objects. Much more abstract, much more mathematical models of
the unconscious have to be proposed.
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