Chaosophy - autonomous learning

Gilles Deleuze: It's a very beautiful story. As we develop a new
schizoanalysis-something that we fervently hope for-the task will
not be to ask the meaning of the phrase "The director is coming,"
but to ask ourselves what has occurred to allow this autistic patient,
so completely turned inward on his own body, to create, even for a
very short time, this little machine connected with the arrival of the
director. What purpose did the creation serve
Felix Guattari: It seems to me that it's not clear from the story
whether the patient actually saw the director. The story would in
fact be more pungent if he had not. Just the fact that there was a
modification, a change of habits due to the presence of the young
interns in the room and their transgression of the director's rule,
this could have induced the patient to evoke the hierarchical figure
of the director and provide an analytical interpretation of the
situation. In this episode his cry presents a fine illustration of
transference, a transfer of the analytical function. It's not a psychoanalyst
or a psychosociologist, let's say, who is interpreting the
structure of the situation. It's literally a cry, a kind of verbal slip,
which interprets the alienation, not of the schizophrenic himself,
but of the card players who must take special precautions just in
order to play their game in the presence of a patient.
Yes, but the patient is aware of himself at the moment when he emits
his cry, even if he hasn't seen the director at all ...
Felix Guattari: Aware of himself I'm not at all sure of that. He
might have seen a cat or something else go by. It's a given in the
practice of institutional psychotherapy that the schizophrenic who
is most lost in himself will suddenly burst out with the most
incredible details about your private life, things that you would
never imagine anyone could know, and that he will tell you in the