Monday 04.12.10 – Schizoanalysis discussion / workshop -- w/ Scott Von

CONTENTS:

1. About this Monday
2. About Schizoanalysis: The Politics of Medicine
3. Schizoanalysis readings
4. Texts by Scott Von
5. About Scott Von

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1. About this Monday

What: Schizoanalysis discussion / workshop
When: Monday 04.12.10
Where: 16Beaver Street, 4th Floor
When: 7:30 pm
Who: Free and open to all

The concept of schizoanalysis remains one of the most central and multi-defined in the work of Guattari and Deleuze. Since their first collaboration in Anti-Oedipus, the term plays a central role, but what it calls forth, is accessible through their work, rather than in any particular moment when the term is defined. It is rather a practice, which remains more close to a kind of process of mapping rather than interpreting.

For those who attended the Connective Mutations seminar in 2009, we encountered, with Franco Berardi, Bifo, one possible iteration of a schizoanalytical approach. Through a series of subsequent and related events, we recently met Scott Von one Monday night at 16Beaver and spoke about organizing an event together dedicated to the concept of schizo-analysis. The event is not meant to be a final word on the subject, but a continuation of a research into what could constitute a schizoanalytic approach.

We look forward to your contributions to what should be an interesting encounter / discussion.

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2. About Schizoanalysis: The Politics of Medicine

An introduction by Scott Von

Schizoanalysis is the extension of psychoanalysis by other means - expanding the analytic individuation and un-knotting process of the psyche beyond the consulting room to medical-ecological, political-economic, and ethical-aesthetic transformation. Sigmund Freud performed an important political act at the beginning of the twentieth century when he founded psychoanalysis and reversed the power dynamic of medicine by placing the patient's subjective experience at the center as opposed to the doctor's objective treatment of the body. Carl Jung confirmed the spiritual politics of psychoanalysis by linking it to the evolutionary process of man's individuation away from the group mentality of species instinct and tribe ideology delineated by the underground movement of the alchemists and free spirits - precursors to psychoanalysis. Wilhelm Reich set up free psychoanalytic clinics in Germany for the workers when he was still a member of the communist party in order to make this available to all before being persecuted by the Nazis. Jacques Lacan, when he was kicked out of the International Psychoanalytic Association for experimenting with the techniques of psychoanalysis, founded his own school to expand it beyond the medical establishment supporting Freud's defense of lay analysis. Felix Guattari, also a political activist, helped found one of the first "anti-psychiatry" clinics where he experimented with analysis in the social field, with psychotic patients, artists, and activists under the concept of "schizoanalysis." Finally we must link analysis back to the practice of medicine where Freud and Reich left off, as the physical symptom today has become a major site of the unconscious, and the body has become the final frontier of political struggle. We will explore the clinical and political aspects of medicine and analysis in this seminar.

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3. Schizoanalysis readings

excerpt from
Anti Oedipus: Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze
chapter 4: Introduction to schizoanalysis: the second positive task

http://sduk.us/beaver/PDF/fg_gd_anti_oedipus_4_intro_schizoanalysis_second_positive_task.pdf

excerpt from
Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm: Felix Guattari
chapter 3 Schizoanalytic metamodelisation

http://sduk.us/beaver/PDF/chaosmosis_3_Schizoanalytic_Metamodelization.pdf

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4. Texts by Scott Von

Schizoanalysis: Clinical and Cultural Practice
http://sduk.us/beaver/PDF/Von_Schizoanalysis_Clinical_and_Cultural_Practice.pdf

The Sovereign Subject – Critical Analytic Practice
http://sduk.us/beaver/PDF/Von_Sovereign_Subject.pdf

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5 . About Scott Von

Scott Von is a practicing psychoanalyst, physician, philosopher, and poet. Trained in Lacanian analysis and Reichian orgonomy, he worked with R D Laing, Felix Guattari and their associates where he was influenced by their existential, phenomenological, antipsychiatric, and schizoanalytic approach to psychiatry. Realizing the importance of reconnecting analysis back to the body he trained as a physician in the politically active tradition developed in Maoist China, integrating traditional medicine with modern biomedicine. He then created the New Clinic (newclinic.org) in New York devoted to integral medicine and psychiatry and evolving continuing research, practice and training in schizoanalysis, orgonomy, acupuncture, homeopathy and other revolutionary medical practices. He has taught as a professor at NYU, CUNY, Pacific College, and Swedish Institute, and at various psychoanalytic institutes and medical schools.