Chaosophy - autonomous learning

as to the analysand. It is tailor made for all and sundry-"hey, you
made a Freudian slip"-it integrates itself with intersubjective
strategies and even perceptive codes: one proffers symbolic interpretations
like threats, one "sees" the phallus, the returns to the maternal
breast, etc. The interpretation is so obvious that the best, the most
assured strategy, for an alerted psychoanalyst, continues to be
silence, a systematically sanctioned silence: pure analytical ecoute,
floating attention. In truth, the emptiness of the ecoute answers here
to a desire emptied of all content, to a desire for nothing, to a radical
powerlessness, and it is not surprising, under such conditions,
that the castration complex has become the constant curative reference,
the punctuation of every sequence, the cursor that perpetually
brings desire back to the bottom line. The psychoanalyst, like the filmmaker,
is "carried" by his subject. What one expects from both is the
confection of a certain type of drug that, though technologically
more sophisticated than the ordinary joint or pipe, nonetheless functions
by transforming the mode of subjectivity of those who use it:
one captures the energy of desire in order to turn it against itsel£ to
anaesthetize it, to cut it off from the external world in such a way
that it ceases to threaten the organization and values of the dominant
social system. Yet, the psychoanalytic drug and the cinematographic
drug are not the same; overall, they have the same objectives, but the
micropolitics of desire they involve and the semiotic arrangements
they rely on are completely different.
One could assume that these criticisms only aim at a certain type
of psychoanalysis and are not concerned with the present structuralist
current, insofar as it no longer affirms the reliance of interpretation
on paradigms of content-as was the case with the classic theory of
parental complexes-but rather on an interplay of universal signifiers,
independent of any meanings they may carry. But can one
believe structuralist psychoanalysis when they claim to have
renounced shaping and translating the production of desire The
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