Chaosophy - autonomous learning

Freud, if you will, developed his concepts, at least initially, on
the basis of the type of access he had to neuroses, particularly
hysteria. Freud himself, at the end of his life, lamented that he had
not had any other method, any other means, at his disposal in
approaching psychoses. It was only in a completely incidental and
external way that he could approach psychotics. And we ought to
add that one has no access to schizophrenia within the framework
of repressive systems of hospitalization. One only has access to mad
people who are caught within a system that prevents them from
expressing the essence of their madness. They express only a reaction
to the repression to which they are subjected, which they are forced
to endure. It follows that psychoanalysis is nearly impossible when
directed toward psychoses. And the situation cannot change as long
as psychotics are held within the repressive system of the hospital.
Rather than applying the descriptions of neurosis to the case of
psychosis, we sought to reverse the procedure. That is, we sought
to reexamine the concepts describing neurosis in light of indications
derived from contact with psychosis.
Gilles Deleuze: We began with an impression, and I really mean
an impression, not a piece of knowledge, that something was
amiss with psychoanalysis, which had become an interminable
narrative revolving around itself. Take as an example psychoanalytical
treatment. Well, this treatment had become an endless
process in which both patient and doctor went around in a circle
which, whatever adjustments were added, was still the Oedipal
circle. It was always: "Go ahead, speak ... " and the subject was
always the father and the mother. The reference was always to an
Oedipal axis. And in vain it was said that the subject was not a real
father and a real mother, that instead a higher structure, let's say a
symbolic order, was being invoked, which was not just a figment
of the imagination. Patients nonetheless kept coming in to speak
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