Chaosophy - autonomous learning

Then we read Freud's commentary and all this aspect of the delirium
disappears, it's obliterated by the reference to a father never
mentioned by Schreber. The psychoanalysts tell us that the father
is important precisely because Schreber doesn't talk about him. We
reply that we have never seen a schizophrenic delirium that is not
firstly about race, racism, politics, that does not begin in all directions
from history, . that does not involve culture, that does not
speak of continents, kingdoms, and so forth. We state that the
problem of delirium is not connected to the family, and concerns
the father and the mother only in a very secondary way, if it
concerns them at all. The real problem of delirium lies in the
extraordinary transitions from a pole which we could define as
reactionary or even fascist-statements like "I belong to a superior
race" appear in all paranoid deliriums-to a revolutionary pole.
Consider Rimbaud's affirmation: "I belong eternally to an inferior
race." There are no deliriums that do not first involve history
before they involve some sort of ridiculous Mommy-Daddy. And
it's the same story on the level of treatment and therapy-assuming
that it is a question of mental illness. If we don't recognize the
historical references of the delirium, if we continue to go around
in circles between a symbolic father and an imaginary father, then
we're only talking family affairs and we remain within the bounds
of the most traditional psychiatry.
Are linguistic studies usefu l for interpreting schizophrenic language
Felix Guattari: Linguistics is a science in development, still largely
in search of itself. There is the possibility of an illegitimate, perhaps
too hasty, use of concepts that are still being shaped. In particular,
there is a notion about which we have been led to reflect, namely
that of the signifier. We believe that this notion offers many
problems for the various sorts oflinguistics. Perhaps it offers fewer
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