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160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
Having concluded from his tribulations that “psychoanalytic discourse” had not authorized him to lift, as he had intended, the veil Freud had cast over the true mainspring of psychoanalysis, and that he had been struck down for his sacrilegious act, he signaled, in a word to the wise, in particular in the ironic title that he gave to a later Seminar, Les non-dupes errent, that he would keep close to his chest truths that were too tempestuous.
In the positivist perspective, intelligence is but one affect among others, based on the hypothesis of intelligibility. This justifies a psychology of Tarot card readers, which is concocted in places that are supposedly freest from this kind of claptrap: endowed university chairs. [To positivists,] affect, conversely, is thus merely an obscure form of intelligence.What escapes people who study such teachings is the obscurantism to which they are subjected. We know what it leads to: to the ever more intentional undertakings of a technocracy; to the psychological standardization of subjects who are seeking jobs; and to acceptance of the established boundaries of society as it currently exists, head bent forward under the weighty standard of the psychologist.
I say that the meaning of Freud’s discovery is radically opposed to that.