Chaosophy - autonomous learning

Psychoanalysis has never ceased doing just that: fragmenting Oedipus,
or multiplying it, or on the other hand dividing it, placing it at
odds with itself, or sublimating it, making it boundless, elevating it
to the level of the signifier. We have witnessed the discovery of the
pre-Oedipal, the post-Oedipal, the symbolic Oedipus, none of
which helps us to escape from the family any more than the squirrel
from its turning cage. We are told: "But see here, Oedipus has
nothing to do with daddy-mommy, it is the signifier, it is the name,
it is culture, it is mortality, it is the essential lack which is life, it is
castration, it is violence personified ... " All of which is enough for
a good laugh, at least, but it only carries on the ancient task, by
cutting all the connections of desire the better to map it back onto
sublime, imaginary, symbolic, linguistic, ontological, and epistemological
daddy-mommies. Actually, we haven't said a fourth, or even
a hundredth of what needed to be said against psychoanalysis, its
ressentiment towards desire, its tyranny, and its bureaucracy.
What defines desiring-machines is precisely their capacity for an
unlimited number of connections in every sense and in all directions.
It is for this very reason that they are machines, crossing
through and commanding several structures at the same time. For
the machine possesses two characteristics or powers: the power of
the continuum, the machinic phylum in which a given component
connects with another, the cylinder and the piston in the steam
engine, or even, tracing a more distant lineage, the pulley wheel in
the locomotive; but also the rupture in direction, the mutation such
that each machine is an absolute break in relation to the one it
replaces, as, for example, the internal combustion engine in relation
to the steam engine. Two powers which are really only one, since the
machine in itself is the break-flow process, the break being always
adjacent to the continuity of a flow which it separates from the
others by assigning it a code, by causing it to convey particular
elements.5 Hence the fact that the machine is motherless does not