Chaosophy - autonomous learning

about a mother and a father, and the doctor kept listening to
them talk about a mother and a father. These were problems that
Freud put to himself with much anguish at the end of his life:
something is amiss in psychoanalysis, something is stalled. Psychoanalysis
is becoming, Freud thought, an endless narrative, an
endless treatment that leads nowhere. And Jacques Lacan was the
first to suggest to what extent things had to be reconsidered. He
undertook to resolve the problem through a profound return to
Freud. But we began from the impression that psychoanalysis was
endlessly revolving around what we could call the family circle as
represented by the figure of Oedipus. At this point something very
worrisome occurs, because no matter how much psychoanalysis
has changed its methods, it still must follow the lines of the most
classic psychiatry.
Michel Foucault admirably demonstrated this point. It was
in the nineteenth century that psychiatry connected in a fundamental
way madness with the family. Now psychoanalysis has
reinterpreted this connection, but what's striking is that the connection
remains. And even antipsychiatry, which takes such novel
and revolutionary pathways, maintains this madness-family
connection. People speak of family psychotherapy. That is, people
continue to look for the basic references of mental disturbances in
family structures of the mother-father sort; and even when these
structures are interpreted in a symbolic way, as the symbolic father
function and the symbolic mother function, things haven't
changed much.
I imagine everyone is acquainted with that exemplary text by
the madman-as we are accustomed to call him-Schreber. The
memoirs of this Schreber, and it hardly matters whether we call
him a paranoid or a schizophrenic, contain a kind of racial, racist,
historical raving. Schreber raves about continents, cultures, races.
It's a surprising delirium, with a political, historical, cultural content.