File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1998/deleuze-guattari.9810, message 364


From: Unleesh-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 19:45:15 EST
Subject: Re:  Re: boundaries in flow


"Like, duh.  I know what he meant.  That's not the

point.  To wit: what he said is a fatuous spew of 

logorrhea, devoid of the least worth.  Now, do you

have something to say about that, or are you just

going to continue to parade your own deluded

irrelevance?"

M., 

Since you're having such a difficult time with what I said, let me translate
it for you:

"I'm suggesting depassing tropes which fit into socioepistemological
configurations which are ultimately repressive."

"depasse" is a term Sartre uses that means to bypass, to supercede, to retire,
to make obsolete, to render a thing of the past, to take a tendency of the
shelf and put it back in the stacks, to fossilize the dinosaur's bones and
look back and laugh, to render something as campy or cheesy and no longer
effective.

"tropes" can refer to cultural themes, ways of organizing knowledge or
dividing up discourse (as well as passionate distinctions that people fight
for in a particular time period) ; in this particular case, as I was referring
to psychology, I was referring to diagnostic categories that definitely
emerged out of the dinosaur past, and despite their campiness seem to continue
to be taken quite seriously.

Now these diagnostic categories WITHOUT A FUCKING DOUBT enter into
socioepistemological configurations which are repressive!!

"socioepistemological" = organized social bodies for determining the truth.

In this case, the American Psychological Association, the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual (IV), and in addition, due to new U.S. Laws, any country
which accept aid from the United States, which now must follow these
diagnostic categories in their mental health programs. This is a political and
social determination of what shall be truth, of how the world shall be seen
and divided up.

Since treatment can still be forced upon people in many parts of the country
and world, these diagnostic categories fit into an immense repressive
apparatus. 

I am suggesting, yes, that we make a laughing stock of the APA and DSM-IV by
considering their cutups of the world obsolete and ridiculous.

Now that's a statement of some worth, and I apologize if my compression of it
into a compact, dense statement was too much for you. I often think in dense
statements.

(un)leash

   

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