Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Psychoanalysis has never been accepted into the scientific community. This makes sense, as the unconscious process is unscientific. Biology or physiology are technologies of human consciousness, tools or extensions of the waking body. These technologies are useless in relation to the unconscious process; they have no effect. The waking body, in effect, turns it back, on the pleasure principle and embraces the reality principle. If the process isn't rational, ignore it. But what is ignored is nevertheless experienced. The experience is political and politics is never wholly rational. Science is captive to politics, a tool of political process.

The fantasy hidden in the scientific method is the fantasy of purity, a spiritual fantasy. The goal is to expand the laboratory until it includes the whole territory, and thus eliminate the unconscious. The method is only efficascious when the reality principle dominates the pleasure principle, that is when the human experience of irrational desire is successfully repressed. Once a people have successfully repressed themselves, they seek to impose that repression on the whole human body, to give all those others the gift of successful repression, the gifts of science, democracy, and capitalism.

But can it actually be realized? Will a human ever be at home in reality?

Monday, April 07, 2008

These words that are joined and separated between a series of beginnings and endings, with the comas, colons, and simicolons, the subject and the object, the past, present, and future, the active and the passive, record the conscious process. The body of writing records my waking lived experience. I have no record of that other lived experience, the dream. It is as if the recording machine is off as I sleep and the experience remains unrecorded until a re-awakening. To "write the dream down" is to superimpose a syntax upon the dream.

"The processes of the system Ucs are timeless; i.e. they are not ordered temporally, are not altered by the passage of time, in fact bear no relation to time at all." Freud, Collected Papers. Vol. IV. 119. A sentence is a slice of time. The ordering process and the recording process are the same process; the unconscious process is unrecordable. Upon awakening, the dream is incorporated by conscious process, the memory of a dreamer who had the dream. The interpretation depends upon memory, or, time.

In the model of human experience that I am attempting in this writing, the unconscious process imagines, it does not think; conceptuality is the conscious process, a secondary process which superimposes itself upon imagination. This secondary process is temporal, and minimally four-dimensional; time/space represents human consciousness in the abstract. A sentence begins and ends; before and after there are only images.