From: "Ja'far Railton" <railton-AT-dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Guattari's Practical Schizoanalytic Work
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 11:18:06 +0100


i read beautiful losers in some hotel room somewhere sometime (not morrocco)
and what i remember is:"connect nothing"--which seemed very profound to me
at the time...oh yeah, and the lucky fly on the impossible lover's body...or
is that a poem/...
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Date: 29 May 1998 19:38
Subject: Re: Guattari's Practical Schizoanalytic Work


>>Any concept of how La Borde worked on a day-to-day level? I'm interested
in
>>discussing the practicalities of schizoanalysis rather than engaging in
lofty
>>theoretical abstractions. What would a slice of life of schizoanalytic
work
>>look like? The reason I ask this is because I feel that schizoanalysis is
too
>>important to remain theoretical ; it must become practical.
>>
>>(un)leash
>----
>"Consider, for example, the institutional sub-ensemble that constitutes the
>kitchen at La Borde Clinic. It combines highly heterogeneous social,
>subjective, and functional dimensions. This Territory can close in on
>itself, become the site of stereotyped attitudes and behaviour, where
>everyone mechanically carries out their little refrain. But it can also
>come to life, trigger an existential agglomeration, a drive machine - and
>not simply of an oral kind, which will have an influence on the people who
>participate in its activities or just passing through. The kitchen then
>becomes a little opera scene: in it people talk, dance and paly with all
>kinds of instrumetns, with water and fire, dough and dustbins, relations of
>prestige and submission. As a place for the preparation of food, it is the
>centre of eschange of material and indicative Fluxies and prestations of
>every kind. But this metabolism of Flux will only have transferential
>significance on the condition that the whole apparatus functions
>effectively as a structure which welcomes the pre-verbal components of the
>psychotic patients. This resource of ambience, of contextual subjectivity,
>is itself indexed to the degree of openness (coefficient of transversality)
>of this institutional sub-ensemble to the rest of the institution."
>
>Felix Guattari "Chaosmosis"
>
>People seek something of the life that explodes in such environments.
>Schools, asylums, love affairs, theatres, galleries, bars, cafes,
>neighborhoods . . . Always seeking for that which hides itself more and
>more. The place where it emerges soon is devoid, carrying only the memory
>and the formal envelope of a fantasy. If you have been fortunate enough to
>find it, all you can do is pass it on. Transmitting the event - "how it
>happens" as F. tells his lover/pupil in "Beautiful Losers" - is beyond the
>subject and his various attractors and detractors - not holding or saving
>but giving it up - unleashing - in a roll of the dice which fears not the
>post-coital tristessa.
>
>The gift that Harold gives Maude is a miracle which only lasts a moment -
>before she throws it in the ocean. And then when she throws herself into
>the ocean (so to speak) he doesn't need to throw himself into the ocean
>like he thought. His car falls over the cliff as he sings a song below the
>rocks. Will the circle be unbroken?
>
>Will
>
>