Chaosophy - autonomous learning

this. Film has become a gigantic machine for modelling the social
libido, while psychoanalysis will forever remain a small cottage
industry reserved for selected elites.
One goes to the cinema to suspend the usual modes of communication
for a while. All the constitutive elements of this situation
lead to this suspension. Whatever alienating character the content or
form of expression of a film may have, it aims fundamentally at
reproducing a certain type of behavior that, for lack of a better term,
I will call cinematographic performance. I Because film is capable of
mobilizing the libido on this type of performance, it can be used to
serve what Mikel Dufrenne has called a "house unconscious."2
Considered from the standpoint of unconscious repression, the
cinematographic performance and the psychoanalytical performance
("the analytical act") perhaps deserve to be compared. For too long,
belle epoque psychoanalysis has persuaded us it was liberating the
instincts by giving them a language; in fact, it never intended
loosening the vice of the dominant discourse except insofar as it
reckoned on achieving even greater success than ordinary repression
had ever done: to control, to discipline, to adapt people to the norms
of a certain type of society. In the end, the discourse that is proffered
in the analytical session is no more "liberated" than that served up in
movie theaters. The so-called liberty of free association is only an
illusion that masks a certain program, a secret modelization of statements
(enonces) . As on the film screen, it is understood in analysis
that no semiotic production of desire should have any effect on
reality. The little playhouse of analysis and the mass analysis of film
both proscribe the passage to action, to "acting out." Psychoanalysts,
and even, in a way, filmmakers, would like to be considered as special
beings beyond time and space: pure creators, neutral, apolitical, irresponsible
... and in a sense, they may be right, they hardly have a
hold on the process of control of which they are the agent. The grid
of the psychoanalytical reading belongs today as much to the analyst
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