Chaosophy - autonomous learning

problems for psychoanalysts, but we believe that a certain maturation
is still called for. Confronted with the problems of our
contemporary society, we believe that the traditional cultural divisions,
let us say among social sciences, science, scientism (this last
word in fashion in the last couple years) and political responsibility
need to be called into question. Especially after May '68 it is
important and necessary to revise these separations. You see, up to
this point the various disciplines have gotten along by relying on
a kind of respect for one another's autonomy. Psychoanalysts have
their recipes, politicians theirs, and so forth. The need to revise
this division does not grow out of eclecticism, nor does it have to
lead to confusion. Likewise it's not out of confusion that a schizophrenic
switches from one register to another. It's the reality with
which he is faced that leads him to do this. The schizophrenic follows,
let us say without any epistemological certitudes, this reality as it
pulls him along from one level to another, from a questioning of
semantics and syntax to a revision of themes related to history,
races, etc. So in a certain sense people who are operating on the
level of social sciences or on the level of politics ought to "make
themselves schizophrenic." And I'm not speaking of that illusory
image of schizophrenics, caught in the grip of a repression which
would have us believe that they are "autistic," turned inward on
themselves, and so forth. I mean that we should have the schizophrenic's
capacity to range across fields. Very precisely, after May
'68, the question is posed in these terms: will we seek to unify our
comprehension of phenomena like bureaucratization in political
organizations, bureaucratization in state capitalism, together with
such remote and disparate phenomena as for example obsessive
behavior and automatic repetitions If we don't, if we remain
attached to the idea that such things are separate and that we are
all specialists who should remain in our respective corners working
on our individual studies, then we will soon witness in our world
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