Chaosophy - autonomous learning

China, continents situated well beyond the persons and the names
of familialism. One can see a parallel undertaking in Proust: Kafka
and Proust, the two great Oedipals, are make-believe Oedipals, and
those who take Oedipus seriously will always be able to graft onto
them their own mournful novels and commentaries. Just consider
for a moment what they are losing: the comedy of the superhuman,
the schizo laughter that shakes Proust or Kafka behind the Oedipal
grimace-the becoming-spider, or the becoming-beetle.
In a recent text, Roger Dadoun develops the theory of two poles
of dreams: the dream-program, the dream-machine or machinerydream,
the factory dream, in which the essential is desiring-production,
machinic operation, the establishment of connections, the
vanishing points or those of the deterritorialization of the libido
being engulfed in the nonhuman molecular element, the circulation
of flows, the injection of intensities-and, on the other hand, the
Oedipal pole, the dream-theater, the dream-screen, which is no
longer anything but an object of molar interpretation, and where
the dream narrative has already prevailed over the dream itself, the
visual and verbal images over the informal or material sequences.s
Dadoun shows how Freud, with The Interpretation of Dreams, abandons
a direction that was still possible during the period in which
he wrote the "Project for a Scientific Psychology," and that henceforth
psychoanalysis is committed to blind-alleys which it will set
up as the very conditions of its own practice. One already finds in
Gherasim Luca and in Trost, authors whose work goes strangely
unrecognized, an anti-Oedipal conception of dreams which strikes
us as being very fine. Trost reproaches Freud with having neglected
the manifest content of dreams for the benefit of a unified theory of
Oedipus, with having failed to recognize the dream as a machine for
communication with the outside world, with having fused dreams
to memories rather than to deliriums, with having constructed a
theory of the compromise that robs dreams as well as symptoms of
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