The fantasy which drives the scientific method is the fantasy of the human as technology, the body as machine. What is the source of these machinations of mad science? It is the source of all human plotting and planning: the unconscious body. The real body is implicit the unconscious body; it arises from it, like an island from the sea. The unconscious body is a sea of desire.

To be a real body it must have an "inside" and an "outside" and a "before" and an "after". The real body of experience is born from the unconscious body of experience. The order of my identity arises from the chaos of non-identity. "Chaos was first of all...." Theogony. The real body does not replace the unconscious body, nor does it succeed in separating itself from the flow of unconscious desire. The mad machinery is floating in a sea of desire. The unconscious sea of desire abides, while real bodies come and go.