SOCIOGENETIC

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   This node page in akhnatonEbook was initially oriented toward the DNAgroup function.
   It has evolved since in a general analysis of the social function regarding Code & Symbolic articulation.

 

TABLE

The Ego and the Heart
Sex in the Clone Age
Two Modes in Self-Knowledge
Foundations for an Industry of Code
          Overview of the Code/Object & Significand/Ideal Articulation
          Logic of the Code/Object & Significand/Ideal Articulation
          Clinic

 

 

THE EGO AND THE HEART 

 

    The starting point of this enunciation finds a notion which has been suggested by Daniel Kolos in the amarna/akhnaton egroups series; on Tue, 04 Jul 2000 15:24:03 -0400, he defines a "spherical thinking" and writes " I like to call spherical thinking where the balance is not merely a see-saw between two extremes, but an exercise in looking a topic from as many points of view as is humanly possible ".

   Such see-saw can be identified with the fluctuation between two poles in Freud's Model of the Collective Psychology.

ego see-saw between objects and Ideal

   This diagram represents the 'ego' in a crowd - oscillating between two identification poles, being the 'objects' that we are or that we enliven on the left, and the Ideal on the right that we share as community members :

Pic.10 (click on pic. to go to the Development of Social Reality page)

< < <   objects      

         Ideal   > > > 

     Pic.10 shows Freud's graph for of a collectivity of five people. In the case of a mass, the two lines of attraction can extend indefinitely as two vertical parallel rails (objects on the left, Ideal on the right, pic.10) - this being analogous with the chromosomes' relationship in a pair, as I'll explain below. For the moment we note that the graph is describing a primitive psychology, according to the apparent behavior of human collectivities. But as far as fascism, known to be based on the credence that masses have a soul (see G.Lebon's sociology early 20th century), has proven a failure, Freud's social platform model will look for an additional degree before representing an Animated or Awakened Psyche (aka Soul).

   Further in his text, DK indicates a rule that he attributes in the spherical thinking, being a mode of " communicating through the Intelligence of the Heart ". This recipe finds an appropriate illustration again in the Optical Model, the way I have depicted it in 1997 (click on pic.20) for an ardent practitioner of learning 'by heart', Muslim version:

   Here is this picture where the heart is indicated in place of the vase - that is where the initial Model ( ) locates the somatic body and body parts - in the elliptical envelop that represents the nervous system.

 

pic.20 (click on pic to visit other text where inserted)

 

   This Optical Model by Lacan is the same and can be superimposed with Freud's Model of the Crowd; it indicates the higher degree of thinking, with an individual who is merged in this crowd. This added virtue builds up upon a logical link (the famous Transference) which transfers the charge of value from the Ideal toward an object. It can manifest in History with an oppressor (on the right) and a victim (on the left) or with more peaceful conjunctions. For instance here pic.20, physical objects, heart and blood flux, are in front of their 'image' beyond the mirror, that is the metaphor of heart as flowers with love (thus i'(a) representing a ideal loving ego). On both sides of the real 'ego' - which is the oscillating grain of mirror in pic.10 - these two categories, object and Ideal, are thus analyzed in a way that they reveal their relationship (see below) through the mechanic of this Optical phase that represents a variation of Freud's Model.

    At this point it seems the Psychoanalysis matches indeed DK's proposal, with the description of the basis of a primitive thought (see-saw) and its progress where the metaphor of the heart applies, since he also writes : " Intelligence of the Heart, or, rather, the Mediation of the Heart ". This precision is even more confirmative since in the Psychoanalytical models, it is typically a mediation role that occurs in the place where pic.20 shows a heart (see below the role of the secondary interface).
    Just a doubt yet subsists with the expression of spherical thinking. And as it is often see in great concords such single detail may open to a radical difference between DK and Psychoanalysis.
   As it is frequent in such situation, it is with an amusing observation that the thorny detail begins to stick out. For looking at these schemas above, one would rather evoke an elliptical rather that spherical thinking. Is it a accidental coincidence, or the true call for a pun, since Psychoanalysis indicates an Unconscious that is in some ways a grammatical ellipse - meanwhile in our times that can be compared with the Renaissance, comes the memory of the Ptolemean view of the world, in opposition before the Copernician one. We know that the issue was eventually brought to a close in passing from a spherical model to the elliptical representation of the motions in the sky.

   It is from this point of view that I'll try to make explicit what is at the heart of Psychoanalysis, and how it motivates a knowledge about the role of Code in the collective destiny.

 

 

 SEX IN THE CLONE AGE 

 

   In order to investigate what is Psychoanalysis, information may be taken from its claim about sexuality. Though it has made its bad reputation, sexuality has been honestly questioned by Psychoanalysis. Beyond Freud and Jung dispute (about libido), Lacan's deny (about sexual ratio) etc.. we see Psychoanalysis addressing the civilization and industry phase when sexuality passes under control of biology. With control over hormones, genes and insemination, it is as if sexuality was suddenly deprived from all its alibis - and with an appropriate analysis, this loss reveals an enlightenment instead: sexuality still stands in its pure form, as a logic that bases the foundation of Time. Admittedly it still manifests through relations as ego-&-Artificial Intelligence, individual-&-ecosystem - but at its core it stands with no other expression than the relationship between the present and Time. In other words, memory is sexuality par excellence.

   Hence we are drawn to draw the relationship of a being with his or her past, and the text below explains by itself how to chose the simplest way to illustrate such fundamental. The same way we used the word 'soul' in order to express what a genome is, we used 'sex' in order to express what is a spire of signification:

pic.30 ('sexion')

   This discourse surrounding and meaning itself, and looking like the letter PHI - phallus,  - is not an 'intercourse' in the sense of this word (intercourse) before the industry of Code that currently sets a living being for an intra relationship, with him or her self within, like an whole ecosystem acts upon itself. Let us notice also that this is not either the icon of the snake that eats its own tail - there is an opening in this discourse that crosses itself (and constitutes a metaphor) and in the moment it takes to run such circuits, a creation can be set. Let us make it therefore as the contemporary representation of sexuality - restoring the integrity of the person by closing the loop:

    pic.40 (click on pic and visit Transference and Political Change)

   There we have a complete graph.. and the moment for the reader as well for questioning the reason that legitimates it form rather than any other one. No other reason than coming back to the heart of Psychoanalysis, is the answer, with a good illustration for what can be explained:

 

 

TWO MODES IN SELF-KNOWLEDGE: 

 

   The double spire (pic.40) holds two centers - it is thus an alternate way to represent what can be an elliptic thinking. When I presented first the above paragraphs alone, a reader wrote:
   << The image of the ellipse & Dr Theaux' comments on elliptical thinking come to mind, and what happens when, in an elliptical basin filled with water, one of the foci of the ellipse is disturbed by a falling drop: the other focus responds in inverted fashion. >>
   I could support this observation as: << I happened to write on a paper towel, a few years ago, during a conversation, what kind of 'psychic' order can be drawn beside or in comparison with a 'cosmic' order, from Ptolemy to Copernicus. We know that Copernicus was still 'Ptolemean' in that he believed that the planets were following a regular spherical motion. And he did not put the Sun exactly at the center of his system. Actually he thought that the Sun was 'close' to the center - somewhat like Freud saying later that Moses was 'close' to Akhnaton. In the case of the cosmos, we already know that it is after Copernicus that a twist happens, a knot and a catastrophe - everything, each point of view change when moving from a Matter-Earth at the center, to an orbiting one. It is a very long analysis, to go through all the meanders. Direct and simple, I prefer to post the graph for the group.. >>

   The illustration of our Collective Psychology as a cosmic ellipse (click the graph) gravitating around Oedipus & Moses foci, is completed with the double-spire alternate illustration that shows how these two foci can generate two discourses - two spires - and how they organize their crossing , (pic.30) : in pic.40 this 'sexion' separates two portions, or phases, in the total course (pic.40, 2 & 3) while each of these states come from and go to a unique and similar mode (pic.40, 1). Possibly a reader will find all this 'abstract' and 'intellectual' - but s/he must be warned against hes possible mistake; for s/he may be misled with a prejudice about physical intercourse and may not realize how abstract and intellectual in fact is the sexual relationship between human beings. S/he should be aware that even animal mammals may experience a special 'state of mind' when mating, and orgasm may be a door for special 'intellectualism' in general. Moreover, on the other hand, these ellipse and double-spire schema illustrate very objective and 'real' things, as we shall now see. It is therefore a good possibility that we are now aiming toward the very physical experience of what sexuality deserves to be.

   I am only sorry with the animated pic below, that I have made too baroque, overloaded. I hope that my commentary will help to make it useful.

 

FOUNDATIONS FOR AN INDUSTRY OF THE CODE 

The Link/Articulation between Things and Ideas, i.e. objects and symbols or Code and Significand,
is the key of the reciprocal influence between Matter and Psyche, formula today
allow to step in this once Mystical Mystery.

 

Overview of the Code/Object & Significand/Ideal Articulation 

Linear Thinking:
  The Optical Model is an illustration of the two phases of the human mind that ineluctably alternate, each one automatically inducing the other one. These inductions are products of the Law of Linguistic (logic of meaning, Significand and signified). It begins with a first logical step, that J.P.Sartre & R.D.Laing described as a Serial Logic. This correspond to a linear thinking where totalization is the principle module (the conceptual mind makes a 'total', and then this total is totalized in another total, and then this other total is totalized and so on...). Such rule of totalization of totalizations infinitely aiming toward an absolute total of the world is located in Pic.10 as the series of 'objects' that piles up on the left of the Freudian model, in parallel with its idealization (absolute) on the right.
Behaviorism:
    In the 20th century, the description of this Linear Thinking has been identified with the end of Philosophy (turning into historical economy with Sartre) and of Psychiatry (turning into anti-psychiatry with Laing), but it was also the moment when the physical forces of technology, that operate unleashed since the Renaissance, set up a digitization of electricity that competes with the behaviorist set of the mind. The effect of this confrontation has resulted in the discovery or formulation of Linguistics and/or Cybernetics. It is J.Lacan who brought back the linguistic abstraction into the human reality.
Metaphor:
   Lacan's contribution was to restitute the trope of the metaphor to the world of Desire. A 'metaphor' is a signifier that signifies another signifier - as we see it in pic.30 when a linear course crosses over another part of the course; this is building a discourse where an element signifies another one. This is shown also in pic.20 & its commentary; where the left side (in front of the mirror) is reflected in the right (beyond the mirror), - both the left (object) and right (Ideal) sides in Freud's model Pic.10. The progress that Lacan allowed was to link up these two, objectal and ideal dimensions - where he recognized both the metaphor in the Linguistic founded by F. De Saussure, and the Transference in Freud's intuition.
Algorithms:
   In Freud's and Lacan's conventional graphs, we find this transference as the relationship between the upper-right and lower-left corners. Two links provide more details: one shows the metaphor on the biological ground (sex chromosomes), another one shows the transference from linguistic value to biological charge in an ecosystem.

 

Logic of the Code/Object & Significand/Ideal Articulation 

Towards dynamic formula :
   The metaphor through which Nature transfers its energy from level to level (giving names to names, as meaning meaning) can also be seen as the thinking process known as reflection. As language dwels in Nature that we, human, know, its science enables a description of such self-knowledge, or consciousness. So the reflected emergence of the subject who thinks is illustrated by Freud's graph and Lacan's model - two links there that show how the Cartesian and Rosicrucian cogito is animated, according to the 20th century ego.

From Thermodynamics.. :
   The same way casting light upon a shadow instantly alters the latter - our self-knowledge transforms itself. But once this is admitted, comes along the complementary obervation, through which memory manifests a stability and an inertia. This is once again an opportunity to bring together the large conceptual pool of science, as Freud located the quales of energy (alocal transformation) and force (centered operation) within a neural and Psyche system. So we can summarize our existential view points as two alternate mixed up with a permanent:

.. To Cybernetics :
   "Two discourses manifesting one stable point of view" is the aphorism ilustrated with pic.40 and the trine conjunction which is concealed within an ellipse as civilization offers it (re: AMO graph above). What we want to see is how this Psychoanalytic deduction - that matches so well the quantic fibered description of matter's states - describes and/or explains the regulation of forms in such dual matrix where we suspect to foundation of sex to be. Following the circuit pic.40 suggests that the purloinment of the name, letter or meaning, that discourses will meet its stable reference (station 1, pic.40), then its alternate, either 2 or 3, state, then 1 again, then 3 or 2 - i.e. ..1.2.1.3.1.2.1.3.1..and so on..
   I have tried to illustrate what this abstract series practically means:

   The picture shows (lower-right corner) the series passing twice at 1 while alternatively 2 & 3 . The position 2 has been commented above. It represents the metaphor when the real heart transferts the charge that is loaded in 1 as the symbol of Love.
   But in spire 3 another configuration reflects the union of the Symbols that represents the totalization of the world. The illusion (Maya) that constitutes the reality in 1 happens to be organized when Cybernetics lodges in place of the organ of 2 . We call virtual reality this organism. The theory then shows what the illustration indicates: the meme, ego or semblant, 'grains of mirror', are processed in this operation - there the individuals, the 'people' are numbered, de-serialized, as in the procession of Plural Analysis. Hence in this position 3 the result in a production of Code, generation and/or re-generation.

Narcisism and dual monism balanced with Triplex Hermetic associative complex :
  Two links give more details about this description of the two operating forms of Psychoanalysis (2 & 3): regarding the triple level of Signification (Knowledge/People/Cybernetics) depicted by d'Olivet when he presented the alphabet, given by Moses, as a 'Cybernetic' or Alchimic program - and the topology of repression in regard with the background (environment).

 

CLINIC

   With the last mentioned link above a practical example of its illustration is found in the evolution during year 2000 of an Ecommunity focusing on the Primal Scene Amarna.

   Under request of a behaviorist trend a triple organization has been assigned to this community - hence setting the phase 2 where Knowledge & People & Leadership (KPL) were respectively represented by akhnatonEgroup, amarnareunionEgroup, amarnaEgroup. There we see why/how phase 3 operates in the double-spire (pic.40) model: without this PLural ANalysis position, phase 1 repetedly shows an objectivity based upon a repressed background (in this case the behaviorist - amarnaEgroup). In this -1-2-1-2-1-2- sequence KPL manifests itself as, respectively, Elusion & Repression & Onism ('Onism' versus Altruism); so amarnaEgroup eludes Akhnaton's subjectivity, represses people's knowledge and unite around a monist leader. It is the trivial trap of nationalism as civilization knows it since the opposition against Moses' program (according to d'Olivet, re/ above).

 

   Still in progress the present page will then describe how the mono 'psychoanalytic' phase defined by Lacan in his Optical Model position 2 is fibered with the Plural Analysis development - as 2 & 3 ; this is thus indicating the two positions that Unefpe defined in 1985 as Plural Psychoanalysis (2) and PLural ANalysis (3). It is ony from that moment that the history of Psychoanalysis shows the interpretation of AMO and the identification of Psychoanalysis as an Ecology - hence completing the Art of Memory and Civilization itself with a 'memory' in a restored and completed identity of the Amarnian Scene.

 

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