EXTENSION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS TOWARDS SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH TEAMS



PLURAL ANALYSIS
DESCRIPTION by CYBEK 1999

- Introduction - About a Request from S.Freud
- Psychoanalysis and Mass-Psychology
- The needed step - we call it Sociology
- Psychoanalysis and Ecology
- Within the step into Ecology
- Summary

- Description of Plural Analysis - e.g. PLAN
- Description of the Technique
- The basic of PLAN
- The optional of PLAN

- Description of the Phenomena
- The meeting of the extraction - psychology site
- The analyst exclusion - memory site
- The group without the extracted - sociology site

- Comparison between PLAN and Psychoanalysis
- Similarities and discrepancies between PLAN and Psychoanalysis
- The need for an addition to Psychoanalysis

- Situation of PLAN
- Books
- Historical conditions
- Initial view Environment Management
- Lacanian acquisition and separation

- Initial Cybernetics of Lacan
- Lacan's failure in Sociology
- Contemporary or Synchronique conditions
- The legal opportunity of PLAN's setting
- The Moral determination of PLAN
- Social legislation and its scientific application
- Addressing Time of Cybernetic
- Cybernetics in Freud's time
- Secondary cybernetics of Lacan
- Bringing closer PLAN and Psychoanalysis
- PLAN's analyst and Psychoanalyst

- Credits and Identification Developmemt of PLAN
- Civilization and Monotheism
- The frame of PLAN's first result:
- Description of PLAN's opening result
- Signification of PLAN's opening results

- Art of Memory
- The Art of Memory

- PLAN's project
- Modes of Practices of PLAN
- Modes of object of PLAN
- Type of Environment for PLAN
- Type of groups for PLAN

- Promotion in the business world
- Promotion in the research world

We are proposing to uphold the experience of Plural Analysis (e.g. PLAN). This tool in the field of human science, may be identify as a product, an extension, a development or an evolution of Psychoanalysis.





X1 Introduction - About a Request from S.Freud




X11 Psychoanalysis and Mass-Psychology

After he started Psychoanalysis in 1900, Freud, by 1910, began to manifest the need for relating his discovery of the Unconscious with the social dimension in mankind. Through vicissitudes the rest of his career shows that this relationship of Psychoanalysis with the collective processes was going to be a major challenge and would be left unsolved at the moment of his death.

First with Totem and Taboo (1911), then with his essay of Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1912), Freud's watchfulness focused increasingly on history, religion and civilization. In his last book he eventually declared that without 'bridging the gap between individual and mass-psychology' ... 'we are unable to advance a step further on our way, either in psychoanalysis or in mass psychology'. This final call, published in Moses and Monotheism (1938), has remarkably been followed, for many years, amongst his successors, with no consequences. The lack of responses to Freud's warning may be explained by a need for firstly securing the early foundation of the discipline. It may also be understood that Freud was expressing a personal unreachable dream. In both cases, the unsolved question must be clarified. It is from this frontier that we shall describe the perspective of PLAN hereby.


X111 The needed step - we call it Sociology

[NOTICE : Since this text explores questioned grounds, it will use a limited number of terms, being understood in approximate meaning. I shall indicate when these words will appear; they will allow for the focus of more precise meanings when certain descriptions will be later intended. The first one gives its name to this bridge that Freud calls for. In place of his metaphoric connector, I shall use the word sociology (between individual and mass psychologies).]

The idea of a 'Sociology' here is just a scaffolding, yet a step which allows us to determine what was Freud's foresight. It substantiates rare attempts in Psychoanalysis during the second half of the 20th century in a direction of Freud's horizon. Sometimes tragic (W.Reich, Mass Psychology of fascism) or stagnant (W.R.Bion, Tavistock) or artificial (J. L. Moreno, Psychodrama), none has elucidated the 'archaic memory' (Apdx.01 ) which would have given the key to further steps.

However, if there is any hope someday, on this path, one can presume that a concept was not found or available, in Freud's time and later, in order to identify a relevant 'sociology' which would have validate any of these attempts.

 


X12 Psychoanalysis and Ecology

A recent attempt (PLAN) was initiated in 1985. It was based on the idea that Freud's model of the Unconscious (produced between 1900-1938) finds an echo in a notion which emerged later, namely that which is still to be universally defined, and presently named 'Environment'.
Usual definitions for Environment are uncertain in fact. If we would express it in a comparison, it would be appropriate to mention how Copernicus was approximative in defining Space; Motive and Action in our 'environment', are no clearer notions than Motion and Attraction as they emerged in the Renaissance's Space. We still wonder if we repeat History, and how trauma and pollution differ from Acts .

As we face a conceptualization still in progress, the very essence of the word 'Environment' is pending in the sphere of a more general concept - e.g. Ecology. 'Ecology' has been coined and defined by Ernst Haeckel in 1869. Then, the notion of Ecology entered its phase of said Scientific Natural History with Charles Elton in 1927. Ecology is the second term that we shall use hereby in its approximate acceptation. It allows the introduction of the meaning of Plural Analysis, since its foundation:

Plural Analysis is an attempt to solve the Freudian difficulty in bridging individual and mass-psychology by introducing, in place of a sociology, an ecology.
A semantic precision is requested there: 'In place' (of a sociology) does not mean instead. The new factor that Plural Analysis carries still shows its former stage (sociology); 'ecology' just supplies the unavailable concept, which was missing within sociology (as said above).
Following this perspective, we expect that the theory of Plural Analysis will benefit from the progress which has been gained previously, and overcome the impediments which marked the first approach between Sociology and Psychoanalysis. Moreover, this new contribution (ecology) brings a considerable hope in the possible step toward Mass-Psyhology which was inspired by Freud, for it sustains in the 'archaic' collective memory, the very primal dimension from which Psychoanalysis holds its specificity - e.g. biology. Looking closer and considering Elton's phase (re:above, Scientific Natural History), it also carries the essence of history which is particularly cognate to the Freudian Psychoanalysis.

Thirdly, completing in fact this support, Ecology (in its latest development) has developed a discourse which reflects itself in terms of linguistic, communication, Code - thus showing even more coincidence with the Psychoanalytic development. And fourth, as much as an extension such as Genetics which governs the Laws of Ecology, in relation to Freud's concern with the process of heredity, we find again a link on this bridge between individual and mass. Eventually, continuing below, we shall eventually find Cybernetics as completing the strong connection that supports Freud's insight.

 
X121 Within the step into Ecology

This metaphor for a bridge usefully illustrates how the new perspective now completes: there is no reason to believe that on Freud's so-called bridge (between individual and group psychologies) the Freudian object itself would migrate. It is better envisioned that Psychoanalysis would keep its format and its object (ego), while its extension molds a place for another.
Actually, on the bridge that links the Analysis of the Ego and Mass-Psychology, upon Sociology, Ecology discloses what is identified as the object of the group, its objective, its production, and/or its product. This is engaging to include the enterprise or the industry, as the characteristic of the operation in view of this Psychoanalytic project.

 


X13 Summary

To summarize : On the base of the Freudian Project to link its knowledge from individuality to group psychology, the means of a Sociology has shown to being limited. This difficulty may be overcome when adding the Ecology perspective .

Along this line, PLAN finds its application in regards to the plain industrial activity in the world, and merges it as a cultural sphere which was first envisioned by Freud. To be complete, in order to illustrate the reciprocal profit that Ecology can take from Psychoanalysis, I have appended to this text the mirrored document calling for Ecologists' attention in the Freudian dawn. This invitation can be read as , while the present text which follows details descriptions of the raw technique of PLAN, before its actual description in its time frame and progress.

 



X2 Description of Plural Analysis - e.g. PLAN




X21 Description of the Technique


X211 The basic of PLAN

PLural ANalysis, alias PLAN - Analyse Plurielle ® - in French, is a technique and operation of human inter-relationships which attributes a certain identification to a group, while isolating, in a series, dual interviews, manifesting a specificity which has been linked to Psychoanalysis. It must be made precise, that the group, though identified, is not expressing an 'identity' - but defines an entity to which a behavior can be attributed in its relationship with its environment; in practice it is the case when a group has a object (or an objective, re: below). Also, the dual relationship which is related to the said Psychoanalysis, does not replace it. Psychoanalysis is understood as what history and institutionalization have already established; besides, PLAN defines a relation which 'manifests' or 'represents' this established foundation.

The technique of PLAN is simple. The fundamental arrangement is made of two domains or spaces which are physically projected as two rooms: one is for the group's session, the other for the analyst. On this topography a mechanism is applied : the group performs its usual objective while in its group-room, where the analyst never stays except for short entries, which have no other function than to invite and extract a member for a consultation in his analyst-room..

This can be simply illustrated through graphs and animated pictures which can be consulted in computer files .

Based of its two fundamentals (extracted-sessions - group at work), PLAN shares with classical Psychoanalysis an extreme simplicity in its procedure. For the purpose of an analytic information transmission between two persons, a coach and a chair have sufficed for Psychoanalysis in leading the greatest progress in the modern knowledge of the mind. Since it took this for model, PLAN shows the same simplicity.


X212 The optional of PLAN

In parallel with Freud's suggestion, when he reminded that several aspects of his technique were personal and possibly modified for the convenience of another practitioner, the rest of PLAN's technique is made of secondary options. At the present time, they are set as follows:

a) A pre-interview is made with the representative of the group (defining its object/goal and its need). Groups consists of 4 to 15 members. An average group of 10 participants requires 3 hours in each group-session (the smaller the group, the shorter it is; and vice versa). Groups can undergo one-time sessions or else be run on regular schedule basis. Preferentially, the sessions are held in the group's usual place of activity.

b) During the group-session, extracted members are chosen and invited by the analyst. Members may refuse or ask for this extraction. There is no number or order in the choice of the extraction, which can be repeated with a same member. The group may proceed without extraction, during certain periods of time.

c) The extracted-sessions match the Psychoanalytic model in regards with the prospect of its non-directivity and free-association of the thoughts which are delivered by the extracted/visiting members. There is no rule for the duration of the extracted-sessions. The analyst is liable for non-mandatory interpretations. He makes no report for any sessions which are considered as private (there is no report likewise of the group-session by the analyst). However, reports by members, regarding extracted and group sessions are possible.

These rules being liable to adaptation to various situations, the large range of PLAN's options opens it to a wide range of applications, as well as several categories of analysts (detailed in Note90). The principle of 'privacy' (no information is transmitted from the analyst out of his room) is yet important to be observed; it is a factor which forces a series of consequences that constitutes the phenomena which characterizes PLAN :




X22 Description of the Phenomena

PLAN displays three sites of operations which are distinct each one from another, and susceptible to scientific isolation.


X221 The meeting of the extraction - psychology site

An operation site directly regards Psychoanalysis; it is made of the meeting between the extracted member and the analyst. This meeting is not 'Psychoanalysis' - but it shows characteristics which qualifies it for emulating most of its century's acquired expertise (a closer relationship between PLAN and Psychoanalysis will be shown along the text below).

Although the prime principles of PLAN do not indicate any necessity for a trained psychoanalyst in the place of PLAN's analyst, it is nevertheless a clear opportunity for such consideration (remote and neutral position of the analyst, free communication of his/her interlocutor, general setting that illustrates both the models of Unconscious and Environment - makes a compound which calls for the Freudian attention).
PLAN's analyst position is of another reciprocal interest to Psychoanalysis: it presents a libidinal semblance configuration, where the object of the drive is related to the object of the group. In general, such actualization of the social inference in a dual analytic relationship makes a precious experience for a Psychoanalyst who intends to progress with the ultimate Freudian question, as above said, of individual and mass psychologies.
Hence, with this first psychological operation site, PLAN offers a reasonable opportunity to relate Psychoanalysis and social enterprise. In the case of non-specialist for analyst (as for instance any lay associate of the group itself) this relationship is also emulated as it puts this person into a certain perspective from which s/he learns 'about' Psychoanalysis. This is the formative aspect of PLAN (detailed in Note90). Evidently, this semblance is even more inductive in the case of a human resources practitioner and/or psychologist, who would be close to contemplate the typical Psychoanalytic point of view.


X222 The analyst exclusion - memory site

A second operation also takes place in the analyst's room. Accordingly to the appreciation of what is the traditional function of a psychoanalyst, this operation may be either considered as strictly appropriate to a Freudian definition, or it carries a new process in the vicinity of the Freudian work. This second operation builds up, in the intimacy of the analyst, the series of information that he receives from the group. This is testifying for an objectivation - as opposed to the subjectivation which occurs when a group-analyst participates within the group meeting and where the message/information may not be addressed to her/him alone. By his observatory position the analyst acts in keeping the unique memory of the series of information that he collects from each individual. A memory-thread is elaborated which is unknown from anyone except him. This is promoting PLAN for a specific status in group psychology, and for the quality of a scientific observation.

It is also noticed that the analyst room, guaranties concurrently the autonomy of the group in its progress. The analyst status, likewise, is not altered in a secondary degree (transference) of the group's knowledge of the analysts' knowledge. The 'memory-thread' that he conceals is therefore preserved for possible use and therapeutic effects

This is building the distinction which circumscribes the third site:


X223 The group without the extracted - sociology site

With the objectivity of the analyst preserved, a consolidated identity results in the group in evolution. This casuistic is clear when it compares with other group management which allocate an intervenant inside the group. With no privacy in this common case, all what is received and what is emitted for this 'intervenant' member, is known from and by the group. In this mode, no other consequences follow than a subjective alteration, which is characterized at its best by repression and/or trauma, since any personal treatment cannot be but public. This classic type of intervention may strengthen sometimes as through intensifying the superego references - yet it confuses the drive of productivity.
PLAN, instead of adding, subtracts a member. With an absent member changing with each extraction, the group experiences a circulation of a minus-one element. Another type of effect results. For this, the principle of leadership, which has been tackled by Psychoanalysis as early as in the familial complexes, gives an explanation:
The Representative (aka Leader) of a group, tends to represent it (the group) for its members
. In other words, members see their leader as representing themselves; and this may turn into a wrong perspective. As Freud seeing populations able to become 'neurotic' (sic), the idea of 'leadership neurosis' can be suggested. The logic which is called in Psychoanalysis for Transference, can be evoked again here - and, as much as it treatment allows the twist of a symptom into a released energy, it adjusts and improves a productivity in collective circumstances.
Instead of being representant for its representation - in a narcissistic fashion - leadership may be representant for another representation, i.e. the environment of his group. From this moment, a linguistic view turns in circle for this environment itself represents the group that it molds; yet in this circle a space has been drawn. This brief metaphor indicates how a 'place' opens for an emergence, namely a production, when a group see its leader as representing itself for its environment (instead of 'for its members'); this is clearly a step beyond narcissism.

The methodic absence (circulation of a minus-one) operated by PLAN, shows these productive effects beyond the 'leadership complex' . By comparison with an Act instead of a narcissistic limbo, it opens the group to a production from the Leadership Complex that it sublimates. So re-establishing the function of the leader in its realism, an adequacy to facts results, with the success of the group, whose behavior addresses the vitality of the environment (it is what we call in one expression: Ecological Behavior).

 



X3 Comparison between PLAN and Psychoanalysis




X31 Similarities and discrepancies between PLAN and Psychoanalysis

At the present point of this text, although often evocative of Psychoanalysis, the description of PLAN recollects a context and a practice still without sufficient links.
The context is one of a Psychoanalysis which has already established an institutionalized form - but it has not yet addressed a pending question, regarding its application towards an extended sphere (archaic inheritance, sociology and/or ecology).
The practice is a defined operation, PLAN, which combines a group and an extraction form, thus composing three sites: of psychology, memory and sociology. This practice shows some correspondences with Psychoanalysis: the dual sessions (extracted with analyst) show an analogy with the Freudian tradition - yet also number of differences. And the group mobilize factors which are essential to Psychoanalysis (Ideal, Narcissism, inter-subjectivity) - yet it indicates more environmental aftermath, rather than the ego which is the object of Psychoanalysis.

Combining these elements, if the series of dual session is looked at as the expression of 'free-association', the entire process of PLAN looks like putting a group on a couch and listening to its members as its ideas. This is certainly illustrative, yet Plural Analysis can be seen as just a chimera of Psychoanalysis. There must be stronger reasons for asserting an identity from this likeness.

So, if PLAN cannot show at first its organic link to Psychoanalysis, it is from the latter that a suggestion comes which motivates a further examination. This resource was announced in the introduction above, where was made reference to Freud's declaration .




X32 The need for an addition to Psychoanalysis

While Freud asked for 'bridging the gap between individual and mass-psychology' (in Moses and Monotheism ), in Civilization and its Discontents (1930), he had already claimed that societies could benefit from "analytic dissection" and that in spite of a number of difficulties "we may expect that one day someone will venture to embark upon a pathology of cultural communities."
It is hard to imagine that Freud meant that the very exact technique that he had set for his treatment would be use in this venture. On the opposite - since he was arguing in the same text that, part the said difficulties, "no one possesses authority to impose such a therapy upon the group" - it is indicative that he was thinking about a specific technical mode for addressing the collective therapeutic issue.

For this reason - and since no such technique had been discovered yet - we must give credit for a the examination of any reasonable technique which suggests this profile, and seek through what could fulfill Freud's intuition. PLAN, therefore must be looked at in depth.

 



X4 Situation of PLAN

 


X41 Books

The setting of PLAN has been a stimulating opportunity for William Theaux, who first systematized and named it, before relating in numerous books and articles , the development and the verification of its theory and its method. Most of these documents are currently written in French. It is under this form that several international libraries - including NY Public Library - have stored certain copies. They can also be found with their abstracts in CYBEK's catalogue .
In English, it is presented electronically in a variety of files - most of them accessible on the World Wide Web. The present text outlines the deeper investigation which eventually shows the indisputable lineage between PLAN and Psychoanalysis. This is concluded after a building series of back and forth :




X42 Historical conditions


X421 Initial view Environment Management

William Theaux attended the University of Paris and achieved degrees both in Medicine and Psychiatry. He underwent a Psychoanalysis from 1972 to 1980, in order to fulfill the vocation of an early age when he thought that the mind process of Psychoanalysis would be useful in order to develop ecological awareness.
As his idea was maturing, he realized that, most of the time, an environmental project is realistic when it develops collective behaviors (in sociological terms: the behavior of collectivities).
Meanwhile, his studies revealed the challenge exposed by Freud as 'bridging the gap between individual and mass-psychology'. He realized that this collective condition for Ecology could be well tackled with the question, left by Freud for his followers.

It was also probable that this solution would set together attributes of Psychoanalysis and notion of industrial productivity. Yet this conclusion preceded the conception of PLAN.


X422 Lacanian acquisition and separation

Beginning a Psychoanalytic training in the Seventies in Paris, William Theaux met with the Lacanian movement - from which he acquired the principal notions. He also observed that this Parisian secession from the more general Freudian movement left unsolved social issues which, eventually, imposed him to quit with this doctrine.

Both these positive and negative experience began with Lacan's original impulse, who opened his career (19XX) in defining the Freudian logic on the base of a model of cybernetics.

X4221 Initial Cybernetics of Lacan

At first sight and on the one hand, the reduction of Psychoanalysis to a typical logic of mechanics (Cybernetics) is highly dubious. It evokes an extreme reductionism and seems to contradict life itself.
In fact, by the year 1980 it was appearing effective that the development in electronics and computing was threatening to overrule any form of control by its living agents. Already in 1995 computers were able to puzzle, with virtual communications, the perception of human beings; who, in some cases, cannot distinguish what is machine and who is human. It was also possible that it would be part of a successful and vital transformation in the new millenium; thus, on the other hand, the precipitated growth of this technology, imposes indeed that the Psyche will be highly affected by this new apparatus. In reciprocity, it is also predictable that typical elements of the Psyche will implement their casuistic in the global electronic system that we may call 'Artificial Intelligence'.

This is calling for a third term - Cybernetics - that I shall use in an approximate acceptation: a single computer cannot be considered as a relevant competitor anymore, in consideration of the immense network which combines energy sources, hardware, programs and interactive users. It is this compound, including its living elements, which becomes the entity in which the project of Artificial Intelligence makes sense. I shall use the term of Cybernetics to designate this continuous machine which starts with high mentality, extends down in the physical laws of its hardware, and integrates the emotional level of its users as well.

Based on the above elements, it would certainly be an error to eliminate Cybernetics from the future of Psychoanalysis - yet on the contrary, there is an essential irrelevance of a manufactured apparatus amongst the objects of libido.
Dr. William Theaux has managed a way to reconcile these two positions: The Lacanian Cybernetic is justified with the exception of identifying it with Psychoanalysis per se. Its worth is absolute when it is identified in the Environment to which Psychoanalysis relates. This acceptation with the current and most productive identification of Cybernetic, e.g.: the science of communication and its controls, of the relationship between machines (robots) and living beings. This allows a linking of Psychoanalysis with the specificity of our ecology that is the increasing pervasion of the Environment by Cybernetic instruments. This bridge reunites Psychoanalysis with biology (Nature) which is its original foundation.

Within this frame, Lacan's formula of Cybernetic gears Psychoanalysis for a communication with industrial applications. It benefits from its linguistics, and logic of phantasm, and augments them with a logic of code - thus answering for the instincts that Freud was looking to attach to the drive . As we know also, many laws in ecology are finding their explanation in genetics. This other regime of the rules of Code also echoes Freud's attention towards heredity and archaic memory. It makes a compound of moral, economical and memory convergence to rallying and strengthening Psychoanalysis.

To summarize : the Lacanian theory starting with an articulation of speech to Code provides the tool for the confrontation between Psyche and Environmentalism.

But it encountered also a series of failures that manifested principally in the social field, offering the second set of data whose criticism is used after the Lacanian experiment :

 X4222 Lacan's failure in Sociology

The Lacanian modelization of Psychoanalysis with Cybernetics developed into the description of a 'collective logic'. Essential is the fact that Lacan transformed and reversed this logic soon after its original formulation .

In its original development, Lacan's Collective Logic puts forward a determinant element --in interrelated counts and accounts of the members of a society-- which he called 'minus-one'. The following moment, he 'transformed and reversed' his intuition; he recommended to introduce a 'plus-one' within the teams of his disciples and observed... an absence of result! This moment of failure helps bring forth a lesson. PLAN resumed positively from the 'minus-one' an operativity which had never been really applied in its Lacanian pre-history.

Lacan, who had isolated himself in the history of Psychoanalysis, on the base of two objections which were regarding Transference and Qualification , found none of these issues were solved at the end of his career. He had built a symptom instead. Meanwhile, the Lacanian waiting room had become a remarkable social object. It was packing analysands in a group, waiting for the call of their analyst.
Usually clients of Psychoanalysts do not gather together; nor do they wait together. In Lacan's school, this compulsion was a denied outcome of the lack of systematization of the 'minus-one' idea. When PLAN took it in a systematic way within its method, it made it exploitable.

 
The tradition of Plurality:

When dealing with collectivities, the usual group-management in the 20th century adds a practitioner. The symptomatic 'plus-one' of Lacan followed this habit; it was not corroborating the innovative quality of Psychoanalysis. From a mass-psychology point of view, Psychoanalysis applies in collectivities regular 'extractions' amongst their members. Instating a 'minus-one' perspective in such pool as a waiting room, it constitutes a microcosm which represents the general Freudian presence within larger communities.

Lacanian practitioners acted unaware that they designed a laboratory for the social effects of Psychoanalysis. In denial, they have been consequently inert. Understanding this, PLAN makes the 'minus-one' systematic and restores its awareness. It assumes that a defined extraction of participants of a group make an experimental setting of the Freudian general social phenomenon. In so doing, it provides Psychoanalysis with its long searched link with Sociology (that is complete with a remarkable and practical concept and new tool ).
Further in this text (re:X52), it will be established how overall this links itself immerses the new complex (Psychoanalysis-'minus-one'-Sociology) in the entire civilization movement - when the 'extraction' will be recognized as the same principle as the Art of Memory's which prevailed during two millenium at least.

To summarize the Situation of PLAN : The evolution of a dissidence in Psychoanalysis shows a Lacanian Cybernetic which failed after turning its back to itself. Taking a lesson from this, PLAN allows a social analysis technique which still includes the means of Cybernetics in its environment and progresses in its application to the industrial society.
Furthermore, with a logic of Cybernetics embedded in its link, the relationship of Psychoanalysis with Sociology is geared for addressing Ecology.

Yet, the 'minus-one' operator in PLAN is far from only reflecting Cybernetic algebra - it shows even its relevance with a pure Sociology as we shall now see :




X43 Contemporary or Synchronique conditions

PLAN develops itself on the observation base of its own context - it is substantiated by the artifacts of its time. Beside Cybernetics which imposes attention to Psychoanalysis (and reciprocally), it has also addressed the general manifestation of the culture that is the Legislation in its society.

 
X431 The legal opportunity of PLAN's setting

X4311 The Moral determination of PLAN

PLAN was first set in 1985 in France; it had to fit into the status of an "Association - ruled by the Law of 1901". For the French legislation, this legal entity is surnamed a collective 'Moral Person'. In its apportion to this context, PLAN found the opportunity to define its specific and universal reason.

X4312 Social legislation and its scientific application

The study of the context where PLAN applied its foundation, revealed a remarkable situation: it met the high interest for Psychoanalysis which regards the post-narcissistic establishment of Morality through idealization and ego formation - for the legal definition of the so-called Moral Person is in strict coincidence with a scientific object:
Formerly 'Science of Education' (Propedeutique), Sociology, declared in 1901, was an authentic new science to the Academia. Its definition had begun a few years earlier in a series of Lessons lectured by Emile Durkheim. He named 'association' the object for this budding science. He then was appointed as its first Chairman (Sorbone/Paris) when the French Parliament created, in the same year, both the University of Sociology and the Law of the Moral collective entity (Law of 1901), which still acknowledges the Association as Moral Person.
Thus, abandoning the notion of individual morality, the laic French Republic has been defining a collective 'person' for a primal Moral entity - in reference to a typically precise scientific object. It was the group status to which PLAN originally applied.

This observation shows first that PLAN molded itself in a scientific model which - secondly - is in manifestation as the secondary process of social representation (Morality).

E.Durkheim's discourse still remains today as a major discourse in Sociology. From its scientific and legal status, its 'association' where PLAN originates, places it as universal. Its base of scientific form shortcuts any cultural or national contingency and coordinates a hinge between the natural environment and the society - which adds a moral constraint alloying within . Consequently, in its embedment in a mass-psychology representation, PLAN complements the biology where Psychoanalysis can relate.

Again a bridge from ego-analysis to ecology is thus constructed.

Even before it re-identified these technical features with the minus-one and other concepts, the necessity to comply with the communal ruling of the 'Association of 1901' imposed PLAN's first motive to isolate the analyst, and therefore apply the extraction etc... The detailed presentation of this chronology can be found in the lecture, titled 'Scientific Moralization', given by William Theaux at the University of Hamilton NZ in 94/25/09 .

To summarize : The non-participation of the analyst in the caucus of a enterprise represents the compliance with the functioning rules of PLAN's Morality contextual application. As it also meet the definition of a Scientific operation, both requirements are fulfilled for bridging social individuality to its ecology.

 
X432 Addressing Time of Cybernetic

The synchronic conditions of the setting of PLAN, not only cover the legislative apparel of Ideal and/or Moral cultural instance, but it has also echoed the effective implementation of Cybernetics in its Environment.

 
X4321 Cybernetics in Freud's time

Besides the coordinate of Morality, a second immediate condition for the construction of PLAN has been the instrumentation of Knowledge (which defines a capacity for analysis).

An opportune Freudian attention draws towards the slip which can be found in the closure of Freud's first text - Outline for a Scientific Psychology. There, he failed to present a set of data that he had previously announced. Incidentally, he had forgotten the availability of the telephone which had been recently installed in his house. So he missed certain data and for this reason, lost the opportunity to conclude his essay - which was followed by the beginning of Psychoanalysis.
This lapse, at the opening of Freud's career, regards the specific equipment (Information Technology) which characterizes the environment of the mind in the 20th century. It reminds us that, from telecommunication up to Artificial Intelligence, the general industry of Cybernetics must be integrated in the phenomenology of the Psyche in the human mind, which began to develop when Freud was a young researcher. Attempting to neglect his slip would not hide Freud's silence about Cybernetics in the future! This great mind of the histoy of Civilization never tackled the issues that electronics was beginning to impose on the consciousness of his time. This is an indicative blind-spot int the History of Psychoanalysis which must be addressed; in contrast with Freud's silence, Psychoanalysis must show a non-ambivalent approach to Cybernetics.

X4322 Secondary cybernetics of Lacan goto FootNote

In 1960, the Lacanian option for Cybernetics may have been a questionable allegation; yet, it brings an indisputable progress through its production of certain formulae. They represent a homogeneous series, from the early social models - as early as Plato's - up to the advanced contemporary linguistic topology.

PLAN superimposes with these models. In particular, the principle of two spaces (the analyst's room & the group's room) is mirrored in the typical partition in the Lacanian models. The 'Symbolic' space finds its correspondence with the group's room, where the virtuality of law and signification governs. A 'Real' space emanates from the analyst's room; it matches Plato's Cave and, contemporarily, the place where Code and Signification interfere. Yet something echoes to this update - a third location is allowed. Lacan's linking of his Cybernetics to a logic of Time and/or the art of Memory (detailed below; X52) provides hints for that dimension. At a less elaborate level, it represents the Cybernetic machine itself .

 

To summarize this point : Since PLAN superimposes the Lacanian model, the latter offers its operativity to the former. PLAN thus becomes a rare social model with a capacity for formalizing the special Cybernetic object in its collectivity.

In the history of Psychoanalysis, the Lacanian excursion (beyond its own resistance; re:X4222) has provided Sociology in the Information Technology time, with an entry where Psychoanalysis can anchor. This sort of docking is realized in PLAN's form. A specific statement on this was produced in May 1995, at a conference on Textualisation & Virtual Reality . Its abstract, titled Cybernetics Equals Psychoanalysis was not to say that Psychoanalysis equals Cybernetics... (re:X4221 criticism of Lacanism). Instead it aludes to the Ideal that Cybernetics is pursuing, along with its communication and imitation with living forms, which is to develop into the level of its model which is Psychoanalysis.

Therefore, if PLAN helps group psychology to integrate Cybernetics, its activity may guide Cybernetics, as well, to evolve toward a high standard of a mind-like tool. This is the type of reciprocal support that is depicted found all along this text. It is highly confirmatory and allows the following observation:

 


X44 Bringing closer PLAN and Psychoanalysis

At its previous stage, the similarity between Psychoanalysis and PLAN was not sure. At the present stage of deeper observation, this position is reversed:

1) With its operation on Moral organization, Plural Analysis joins the Freudian horizon regarding the processes which follow Narcissism. Parental and Leadership Complexes evolve and turn the vital investments toward the environment, paralleling the object of Ecology to an object (drive's object) of Psychoanalysis.

2) For they did not show the institutional attributes of a 'Freudian Session' which have made Psychoanalysis a social reality, extracted sessions were detrimental likewise to PLAN's comparison. But with a series of Models and formulae, extracted sessions prove to be matching with linguistic and political models of Lacan and also Freud.

About the latter, the finding of the representation of these sessions on Freud's inaugural formula of the Primary Group reinforces a powerful clarification of PLAN's introduction in the Psychoanalytical sphere.
With stronger arguments, PLAN can be lookeded as a possible extension of Psychoanalysis according to Freud's wishes and indications.

From the most general point of view, Psychoanalysis operates with thought processes. It examines night dreams, everyday life slips, and singularities such as jokes or phantasms - and works through their meanings. Freud rapidly discovered that he was exploring memory as well. He thus distinguished 'acquired qualities' and 'archaic inheritance' . He thought that they shared similarities to individual and mass psychologies, but he could not find a key which would articulate each one to the other.

We have already noticed that this key was probably not available at his time. When the human mind lacks a tool or a manifestation for an experience, his intuition does not go as far as a conceptualization. This case is modified with Cybernetics which imposes itself today with its increasing performance. Assessing this tool has been progressive. Freudism and its science of meanings had been ready for some time (re:X4321 Freud's opportunity for a slip); but the role of the code in communication was only first integrated by the socio-psychiatry (Dr. R.D.Laing after J.P.Sarte's socio-philosophy). Yet even for them, the real confrontation which is given today by the cybernetic machine was not advanced enough to be enlightening.
PLAN' modelization matches a time where the identification and control of the Code's regime has become a patent necessity. It proves to be formulated to address it. It enables us to recognize Cybernetics in the Environment and to provide the key argument which links individual and mass psychologies in an Ecology.

Eventually, this assessment is supported by the remarks it opens to


X441 PLAN's analyst and Psychoanalyst

In his considerations Freud expected that "someone venture"  in the pursuit of the therapy of neurotic groups or civilizations. At the same time he was declaring that no one could have "authority for such a treatment"; he was afraid that this contradiction would put a dead end upon his discovery. Yet the situation has changed since: a tool (Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems etc..) has taken form and begins operating in place of many human situations and decisions. It is yet far to solve the necessity for an authority, but it imposes the dimension of Signification in a clear perception of the intellect . The perception of this added casuistic within our mind, helps us to understand why there is actually no special need that 'someone' would venture in any collective analysis, since it is not a new human operation which is needed, but a code process which is perfomed. In short, wht Freud saw as a difficulty is thus solved.
It is instrumented in PLAN, where the effective operation is done while the full autonomy of the group is maintained. The theory explains that it is a code intervention which is in operation from the analyst's room. Neither the analyst or the extracted members are responsible for it; the circulating absence ('minus-one') is a sufficient motor in the group. It is a substration which moves a phenomenology into analysis, treatment, evolution, and transformation. At the same time it is clear that the human relationship's prevalence is nevertheless maintained in its own well-known domain (members of the group maintain the social identity while the analyst's room the dual relationship appears also in all its classic necessity).

From this understanding - while a logic of code is delegated to its vital reorganization, the role of the analyst reveals itself as much more individualistic than it was previously perceived. It is now possible to see that the extraction-session becomes charged with the very singularity which qualifies Psychoanalysis in its essence.

 To conclude this point: Our examination of the historical, legal and technological environmental conditions of PLAN reduces the discrepancies between PLAN and Psychoanalysis. We are now contemplating a relationship which is close to connatural.

This text could now examine what still opposes this coupling - and further, venture an analysis of the resistance. We can also think that the similarities are at least intriguing enough to suspend, and perhaps spare a critique, in continuing a deeper observation. Therefore, this text will now examine the effects and results already creditable for PLAN:

 



X5 Credits and Identification Developmemt of PLAN




X51 Civilization and Monotheism


X511 The frame of PLAN's first result:

In order to facilitate the understanding of PLAN's first result and its signification, it is advantageous to look back into Freud's long study of Monotheism, Akhnaton and civilization psychology and its dissociation from his early disciple Jung (Collective Unconscious). In spite of his egression for esotericism, Jung never discovered a key which was easily available:

Alchemy fascinated Jung. The legendary Patron of this pre-science was a well kown legendary King of Egypt named Hermes Trismegistus or Hermes Thoth. The fact that this Hermes is related to Hermopolis Magna which stood during the Ptolemean period, on the ruins of Akhnaton's city, has not been noticed by Jung. This is just to indicate the exemplary case of repression which has hampered the 20th century in the recognition of Akhnaton. It is understandable nowadays thanks to the work of the historian Frances A.Yates who described this repression .
With Yates' work, it is easier to see why Hermes Triplex did not attracted Freud's attention either - the history of this solar monotheist Egyptian king (that scholars during the Renaissance had already identified with Moses himself before the censor from the Vatican) was banished from the modern European university. It is also noticeable that Trismegistus included a Hellenic component/character who was related to Orpheus - but Egyptology helps today to recognize Oedipus as well in the "Triple Master" Akhnaton. Victim of the very repressed information that was available at the beginning of the 20th century, Freud confessed a malaise and a feeling of memory confusion after his Western education when he visited the Acropolis. It is with two characters only, Akhnaton and Moses, that he left an incomplete work which PLAN resumes.

 
X512 Description of PLAN's opening result

It is in the course of PLAN's setting and early practice that - amongst other topics such as parentality, legislation of family - the experience focused on Freud's alibi for his Collective Psychology. It has been unexpected though, that it reversed and advanced some of Freud's hypothesis about the historical Moses and Akhnaton that Egyptology had discovered in 1910.

Fifteen years after PLAN's commencement in 1985, the complete identification of Akhnaton is well advanced today (1999) - and by 1988, the main pieces of the thesis were already acquired. It is under PLAN's application in the Association Unepfe (Lyon/France) that the discovery took place as well as its consolidation. It must be described here shortly:

Freud supposed that Akhnaton had died in Egypt, and that Moses was one of his disciples. His deduction was that the latter had been eventually murdered by the Hebrews in the Sinai. One of Freud's students, Immanuel Velikovsky, searched in another direction and eventually published, by 1950, the thesis which identified Oedipus as Akhnaton. This is well accepted today and one can rely on the good probability that Sophocles worked as an historian on this topic.

Once Akhnaton-Oedipus is in perspective, it is plainly suggested that the king of Thebes went into exile - where he escaped a murder attempt. Actually the three plays Oedipus King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone not only reveal Akhnaton in person behind Moses' veil, but also the misinterpretation which was expected to strike the first inquirer . The puzzle including its freudian over-turned piece was then completed. Shortly after (1990), an important complement was provided by Egyptology: the Hebrew ascendance of Akhnaton by his mother Tiye (www).


X513 Signification of PLAN's opening results

Although of an extreme importance in civilization  analysis and its close relation with Freud's major study, this considerable result during PLAN's early application does not directly show how it connects to PLAN's essential technique. One must use the previous reference to Hermes Trismegistus in order to get its full meaning.

The traditional Hermes Thoth-Moses-Orpheus (Trismegistus - meaning Triple Master) - becoming Akhnaton-Moses-Oedipus in the modern age - was legendary, and known for ruling specific programs in the Western civilization (Natural magic - i.e. Industry for instance). After that the reception of Ancient Macedonian documents (deciphered by Marsilus Ficinus for Cosme de Medicis) had revealed to the early Renaissance that he was Moses himself, the last representant of this interpretation was Giordano Bruno, who was eventually terminated by the Inquisition (therefore putting an end to the Renaissance which remained blinded since in regard to the Hermetic spot).

Bruno's report was that a so-called Ceremonial art (i.e. Sociology) was attached to Trismegistus, which included a specific art of Memory. This art was supposed to carry, along with the character's function, his own memory. According to this complex, the identification of the historical character Akhnaton (Trismegistus) was due to combine with a technique of remembrance - namely the Art of Memory attributed to Simonides (contemporary of Sophocles) as transmitted by Cicero.
As we realize it now, the identification had combined indeed Psychoanalysis which could be recognized later as identical to the Simonidian Art.
It is in the knot of this linkage (Akhnaton-Art of Memory) that the relevance of Akhnaton's identification by PLAN corroborates its attachment to Psychoanalysis - as follows:

 


X52 Art of Memory

From its earliest times, Psychoanalysis has been acknowledged as a Memory Cure. The fact that PLAN precipitated the recovery of an original phase of civilization in completing Freud's investigation, makes a fifth or sixth evidence which brings it close to Psychoanalysis. This is not yet a proof for any unity. The situation has changed after a final observation regarding PLAN's structure.

The fact that it embedded the identification of Moses, Oedipus and Akhnaton as Trismegistus, gives credit, but not knowledge, to this technique. It is after the following step, when Trismegistus links to the Simonidian Art of Memory that the nature of PLAN gains a better understanding:

Trismegistus was the patron of an hermetic sociology which was centered around the Art of Memory. In 1991, the study of this technique revealed that it was exactly matching PLAN . The similarity is so deep that it can be said that PLAN is the re-actualization of the Art of Memory. The examination finds that this art has followed certain phases in its evolution. Starting in Greece, it was an individual experience in regard to a group. During the Renaissance, with G.Bruno, an improvement with 'relative' places brought it to a series of individuals, in regard to a group. In PLAN's form, it integrates the Cybernetic product in the group.

The search for an identification of PLAN seems to have come to its closure. Notwithstanding its intriguing links with Psychoanalysis, PLAN would simply be the continuity of Trismegistus' Art of Memory - that would recover in due respect, the memory of Akhnaton's identity.

This elucidation however is not totally exact, for in fact - and important enough - one cannot speak of a continuity. The history of the Art of Memory shows, on the contrary, a precise discontinuity. The Art of Memory has been interrupted with the repression of Hermeticism, following the execution of G.Bruno in 1600. The modern age knew practically nothing about it, until the mid-20th century. If PLAN matches it so well, it must be understood as a re-emergence - but in this case, its apparent origins stemming from Psychoanalysis must be re-addressed:
Eventually, there is no reason to identify the re-emergence of the Art of Memory at PLAN's place - but much more evidently, to recognize Psychoanalysis at this place of intuition. The exhaustive consideration of Civilization's long process now shows an intelligible process - including a repression of the Art of Memory (1600), then Psychoanalysis (1900) as the intuition of this Art in reconstruction, eventually recovered and updated as PLAN (1985).

This is certainly intriguing for the Freudian community which suffers from a contradiction when it attributes to a Great Man (Freud) an individual authority for casting on Earth the method which is due to retrieve our archaic collective memory. Beyond the regular sign of humiliation, realism in Science may makes a step here; we did not succeed so much in attaching PLAN to Psychoanalysis - but PLAN has attached Psychoanalysis to a mainstream of Civilization through one of its most traditional techniques. At least there is now a consistent logic of evidence to make this a founded hypothesis.

 
X521 The Art of Memory

The Art of Memory has been described first in Greece by Simonides of Ceos - during Socrates and Plato's period - according to Cicero who transmited in in Rome - from which it was continued by the Hermetic Tradition. The legendary report matches PLAN's description  - as it was discovered in 1990 (), a few years after the setting of PLAN, thank to the work of late France A.Yates and its followers in the Warburg Institute of the Royal university of History.
Today, the Art of Memory/PLAN is provided with an algorythmique which depicts its mechanism in term of Topology and Linguistics .

 



X6 PLAN's project

A noticeable convergence or similarity has been verified between Psychoanalysis and a method (PLAN) which combines Psychology and sociology. Practical measures must thus be considered. They concern the modes of application of this convergence, then the objects for such application.




X61 Modes of Practices of PLAN - This chapter is completed in Note90

Looking back at the motive which triggered PLAN's original setting, we find an attempt to answer questions that the Lacanian experience had opened, and left unsolved. Namely they were regarding Transference and Qualification of the Psychoanalyst.

About Transference, undoubtedly, PLAN introduces or modifies a factor; the group-community which participates in PLAN share a same analyst; especially when systematic, this is a specific setting. Moreover, it adds a same group-object to their psychological investment.

Perspectives on Qualification are also opened with PLAN. The fact that a group is responsible for the choice of its analyst, introduces a difference with the individual situation. An individual is not in an easy position for the determination of the quality of his Psychoanalyst. In the case of PLAN, this determination depends on a consensus; it imposes a group phenomenon which evaluates a qualification and even, to some extent, provides a functional training, to its analyst.
The fact was suggested when the Lacanian environment of the early PLAN immediately banished the experience; consequently, left without collegiality but with a group which was witnessing discoveries and their quality, PLAN's first analyst had no other guaranty than this group community. During the time of consolidation of the results, an idea emerged that, to some extent, a lay person could proceed as analyst as long as the group would appreciate and ask for him or her. This minimal obligation emphasizes PLAN's understading of an absence - the 'minus-one' function - for its agent.

Since the circulating extraction is the prime factor of its Sociology, the mere collector who operates in private, in the analyst room, does not need special characteristics. It is in a second moment that this 'secondary' role looks for a certain attention.
At the present time CYBEK of New York Inc. offers and implement a supervision facility. Distant Support is provided along with short and/or didactic trainings. During the first consultation, the needs of the group are defined according to the specificity of the analyst; associate colleague, psychologist, human ressources collaborator or specialist in PLAN are considered, according to an action program.

 


X62 Modes of object of PLAN

Many types of groups and objectifs benefit from PLAN. The technique itself was created with a group of 'psychoanalysands' of a same Psychoanalyst. With a general condition, two majors objects are distinguished:

 
X621 Type of Environment for PLAN

Identifying PLAN as the re-establishment of an Art of Memory gives a time frame and its specificity. After being known for two millennium, the Art of Memory has been repressed and forgotten.

In the gap of its eclipse (from 1600 to 1900) the Western world has certainly increased a 'memory' ability (development of sciences, history, archeology etc...). Only the said 'art' part of this memory was likely suspended. This is accorded with the modern understanding of several dimensions involved in memory functions.

Objectifying artifacts is a form of memory, yet different than interacting with them. According to a modern concept, 'Environment' means a subjectivation of our positive history. This position is at the foundation of Psychoanalysis, and it meets the conditions an Ecology. It allows a future for which we know no other term than art - yet this subjective interaction requires a specific tool: the Cybernetic apparatus.

Cybernetics lift the human person as a subject of history - for it gives a control upon its own code - but reciprocally, the factor of Cybernetics in the Environment calls for a human operation. PLAN intervenes in this loop and finds its application in an Environment where the presence of Cybernetics calls for it. Therefore, when an Environment is equiped with Cybernetics, PLAN brings back the art part of the Tradition (Art of Memory) and reconstitutes an integral memory.

 
X622 Type of groups for PLAN

Beside addressing the electronic conditioning of society, PLAN produces effects and loops in its Environment. In the business world, its relationship with Psychoanalysis provides a double supplement:

 X6221 Promotion in the business world

The implementation of sophisticated computing (expert systems) pushes leadership to the limit of semblance. It raises tensions with the leadership in a complex which can endanger the group and its productivity. With the help of an analysis, a typical business team sublimates its social complex into the true cause from which its well-being depends - e.g. its environment (Social and Natural) .

Yet, the idea of realism in a worker psychology potentially opens an immense debate. Interventions may be seen as a threat against a necessary hierarchy. A close look at PLAN shows that it offers a shortcut to organization instead.


The emphasis on Morality

The factor of morality that Psychoanalysis has circumscribed into the ego's sphere, lays beyond Narcissism--this sublimation process applies to groups, once they analyze their social complex . It gives an example of a possibility for operating on repressed level. PLAN's relationship with the Moral and Legal socio-mechanisms establishes the same ability. In particular, what is interesting is the attachment of the scientific principles to this social moralization. It allows therefore a guidance toward a sanity of industry in regard to the maintenance and treatment of life.

For the leadership question is analyzed in a moral model, the psychological motive skips it and immediately shifts toward a focus on the production of the group. It escapes the political charge and constitutes the base for 'Scientific Morality' which is Environmentaly oriented. At the present time, PLAN is unique for addressing such an integral industry which still puzzle many groups, ideologies and vital decisions.

X6222 Promotion in the research world

Respecting aside the responsibility of the leaders for any ideologies, PLAN's moralization (Note110) directly touches the environment via entrepreneurial production, which usually derives from an industrialization of Science. This direct vital concern is however mediated by the second dimension which regards Psychoanalysis when the complexes of authority are extricated. It is the condition of Knowledge, which bases a sane Mentality, inasmuch a 'normal' knowledge is defined as Science . It is in proportion of its Collective Knowledge that a group favor a production which is relevant for its need.

When Freud considered possible neurosis of collectivities, he saw them related to knowledge (more than to individual causes). Leaving for the Great Figures the therapeutic charge, he saw these neurosis due to dysfunctional knowledge of memories traces and archaic inheritance. Freud's concern was Religion and Ideologies - he had not the opportunity to investigate more general Mentalities and Intellectual models. However, nowadays, scientists are looking for investigating their own intellect for the understanding of symptoms, attachments, inhibitions. This investigation for the Unconscious role in Knowledge, has spread in every dimensions of psychology (social complex, memory, libido, etc..).

The idea that Knowledge itself may benefit from Psychoanalysis calls for a technique as PLAN which lays the social base where Knowledge exposes its scientific regime.


The emphasis on Knowledge

There are several aspect which are present in the Scientific demand for self-knowledge. One is the importance of power and hierarchy in the field of Science - it must be acknowledged and scientific teams are not different from the industrial and consumerist world in this respect. PLAN is appropriate for this issue.

A second factor intervenes in the scientific experience; it is Cybernetics and, although the intellectual training of the scientific community will challenge with great strength a supremacy of Artificial Intelligence, it will eventually compromise - as the other domains of society - with the impact of Cybernetics in collective mechanisms, including knowledge. This makes a second issue where PLAN is appropriate.

The third factor which is specific to the scientific query is knowledge itself. A research team can expect from PLAN a better access to the understanding of the direct or later effects of its activity in the Environment. This is comparable with the awareness and the control by the industry of its productivity. What is added in the circumstance of Science is the platform of intellectual reflection itself. As it was conceivable for Freud that an analysis of the religious models could be possible, it is conceivable that the models of thought are dependant on group organization and therefore analyzable by such technique as PLAN.

PLAN has already shown its efficiency in fields of History of Religion, and even History of Memory. It is looking to meeting same success in regards with biological models, development of genetics, even exploration of physics or understanding mathematics etc..

 




END


NOTES

Note10 : At this advanced point in the theory, the question of the identification of the Unconscious, beside Environment require a study by itself. In a first approximation, a metaphor can outline the question and its issue. With all necessary precaution, it is useful to compare the model hereby constructed, with the Copernician one, in respect with the fact that their are both constructs by a same manhood (in quest for identities in the Universe) and must show similarities. The Copernician fundamental is the movement of Earth as a planet - this is comparable to the individualisation of the ego made by Freud. If one should extend further the comparison, we would find a circulating Copernician earth beside an oscillating Freudian ego . The "unconscious state in the Id" (see SubNote11) can be put in parallel with 'the Environment in an Ecology'.
Since the definition of the Environment is still approximative, this identification (between Environment and Unconscious) may be very well done. In order to further address the semantic needs in the science of Ecology, the space metaphore is vague enough to be a reasonable support here.
Between Earth and Space, there is an intermediary system (the solar system) in the Copernician model. Between the ego and its ecology, there is also a intermediary system which is the its environment. As we know that the solar system counts with an history, we may find likewise in the Environment a similar condition of memory related to the condition of space and matter. I do not intend to extend further such comparison. <back to text>

SubNote11 :  After excerpt in Apdx.01  - a few line below, Freud continues: Two further questions must be answered. First, under what condition does such a memory enter into the archaic inheritance; and secondly, in what circumstances it become active--that is to say, penetrate from its unconscious state in the Id into consciousness, though in an altered and distorted form?<back to text>

Note20 : We are there screening along the 20th century the triggering moment when the Industry gears the Culture with necessary tool for a viable so-called bridging between individual and group psychologies. In order to make it simple in the Introduction, this time scale only presents the graduation from the first instrument (Sociology) up to it second state (Ecology). Actually it is a three layer compound that we shall eventually witness - e.g. made with Cybernetics also. A full time scale would then depicts : 1901, Sociology, Emile Durkheim - then 1927, Ecology, Charles Elton - then 1946 Norbert Wiener. This complex necessity for including a third stage is justified further in the text. <back to text>

 Note30 : An Address Toward an Ecology Reading :
As much as there may be an influence of the Psyche on the life on an individual, it may be influencial too on the life shown in her/his environment and, it there is a link between Psyche and mass-psychology, we can presume an influence also on the global environment by the collective industrial mean.
Actually, there is not even a need for a characterization of a Gaia in order to see the obviousness of the inter-relationship, or interactivity between Psychology, Sociology, Psyche and Ecology - what this obviousness call for is rather the little consideration that is has emulated so far. Ecology would take an immense advantage in the material that the Freudian acquisition of knowledge is able to bring to it. With its biological foundation Psychoanalysis is able to provide at least a general model of mind for the Environmental relationship, and possibly a model of human mass including its 'exterior' (see Freud 1921 'external object' in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego) - even more with a cybernetic representation (Lacanian step) thus including the mechanical products within life.
Reciprocally, looking twice at the advantages for Psychoanalysis in its relationship with Ecology, in providing a new concept which fit so well to the idea of a Unconscious connected with a genetic phylogenesis, it seems that it can supply to the pending an insufficient sociology concept that stoped Freud and his description of an 'archaic inheritence' . <back to text>

 Note40 : The technique of PLAN is visible on animated picture  , on the web site of CYBEK and on a site focused on the 'edges', which follows a tradition of interpretation  <back to text>

 Note50 : A deeper investigation of theory, explains that the 'non-intrusion' opportunity of PLAN induces a non-alteration of the code (or coding is the correlative of non-alteration of an identity) as the discrimination illstrates in Lacan Modo phase (a) - instead of the altered confusion in Phase II of ht e model . <back to text>

Note60 : Later in the text (X52), the presentation in the AoM shows PLAN - from its first pre-examination - re-establishing Psychoanalysis in the Civilization along the line of the 'inherited tradition', and therefore demonstrates the physiological relationship between them three (Art of Memeory, Psychoanalysis, PLAN, ). <back to text>

Note70 : Beside the simple listing in English  - some French abstract can be accessed on the web <back to text>

Note80 : Lacan described its collective logic (logique collective) in its early article on the logic of time - which is remarkably sanctioned with a typo; freudian slip should we say - when he refers to the article of Freud (Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse) as "Massen : Psychologie und Ichanalyse" (sic) in a note which links to its later development on this matter. Noticeably, on each side on this hinge, he first establishes a notion of a minus-one that he reverses, a moment after, into a plus-one. Exploring in details the terms of the slip shows that Lacan tried to say that Masses were nothing but the individual subject. It was also at that period that he rejected a project for a Society of Sociology that he had previously supported with Roger Cailloix. This psychopathological circumstances has suggested us to resume the observation from the initial intuition (minus-one)- which eventually concluded as a major factor in PLAN. <back to text>

Note90 : Here a note may be opportunate to summarize the originant position of PLAN about Transference and Guaranty. It is described hereby in brief terms as can be raw originating intuitions: as Transference and Guaranty were two issues which were unsovled or unclarefied in the Psychoanalytic theory and practice, an approach of the former began on this reflection: since Transference is an anigmatic object, let us collect the population which enacts it as for their commun denominator. Consequently a collection of the analyants of a same psychoanalyst seemed to be a primay simple object for studying Transference. Secondly, this new data in the field of Transference study revealed how the latter (Guaranty).was linked to it. The traditional certification of Psychoanalysis by pairs found a complementary approach when an untraditional guaranty is provided by group of the patients. From that moment, a mode of certification is created for a new form which is called Plural Analysis and Plural Analyst.
This is the basis that supports that PLAN's analyst is trained by its own experience. It is also the logic which calls for a support from a trained practitioner. Again, this trained practitioner does not certifies the analyst in training ('its own experience' suffices - that is the very fact of the group request, which states her/him at this analyst function) - but his support must be qualified (i.e, trained). This logic lead to the a status of Plural Psychoanalyst and a notion of Plural Psychoanalysis - this is the effective didactic mode for PLAN; it is made of a training based on a group which has no other object that Psychoanalysis itself (isntead of the casual group where PLAN apply, which are constituted with an industrial, or so-called scientific object.
The detailed constitution of these organic didactic statuss is covered in the book titled CILSA  .<Back to complenentX61> <back to text>

Note100 : Beside the association for the object of the Durkheim's Sociology (as mentioned later in the text), the individual, in this Sociology, is identified by the essential quale of anomia. The coincident participation of the minus-one with the Lacanian object - namely "(a)", alias 'abjet' - of Cybernetics, places PLAN for another link and contribution to these sciences. <back to text>

Note110 : It is possible to find deeper the stem from which Freud and Durkheim deduce. Kant's materialistic Moral Reason was openly that of Durkheim when Freud was continuing the deduction that a 'material' rationality ("something almost concrete') deserved a domain - that he called Unconscious - from which the Morality transformed the Narcissism. <back to text>

Note120 : retranscription can be retrieved on site, zip.file or dsk <back to text>

Note125 : The principla set of Lacanian formulae cover the model of Cybernetic , the model of linguistics , the model of Psychology , the model of psychoanalysis , and the model of Politics . It apply to Genetics and Artificial Intelligence. It can be extended toward a model of Mathematics (Topology conducted by Lacan) and of Ecology (conducted by PLAN). <back to text>

Note130 : In the Lacanian modelization, the reality (which is outside the Cave in Plato's phase) is beyond a mirror (which stands at the door and closes Plato's cave) - it is therefore virtual (as ancient tradition would call it Maya). Things a 'represented' in this dimension - as therefore, 'in reality' Space is represented by light, Time is represented by electrons. Virtuality itself, is represented by Cybernetics - as a redundant representation, it stands at a special place in Lacan's graph of what stands 'beyond the mirror'. It is illustrated as a box - actually a mask (a wall in Plato's Cave) - or a simulation which is mirrored  <back to text>

Note140 : Freud's model of the Primary Group shows its remarkable potential when it continuously superimposes with the many developments that his original Psychoanalytic theory has allowed since . <back to text>

Note145 : PLAN allows various personal status for the function of its Analyst. As Freud noticed, a solution for the question of authority is requested at the threshold of an analysis of group or mass psychology. PLAN provides this solution since the Morality of the analysis is guarantied by the collective association - any lay person is consequently admissible as analyst as long as a support is available if needed. As ustified according to X431, mentioned and explained in Note90, in paragraph X4222 on plurality and above refering text. <back to text>

Note150 : (tocomplete) For example: the Code from within the cells is perceived with the same acuity than the function or meaning of each cells organs for one another - code of currencies beside the physics of economies - code of the expert systems beside the algorithms of the hardware etc... <back to text>

Note160 : Yates was specialist in the History of the Renaissance; she released the history of the repression of the Hermetism during this period. Hermes Trismegistus is a major figure of Akhnaton's identification - it is explicited on the www which devotes an entire site to the general identification of the pharaoh Akhnaton <back to text>

Note170 : In other words, Oedipus at Colonus describes why anyone who would begin to release the repression - as did Freud - of the identity of either Moses, Oedipus, Akhnaton etc.. would read the story of a murder (in the Sinai) for it was a lie which has been concealed in a second level (on propagand purpose) between the line of the first level of a mask (i.e the Legendary Biblical Moses) <back to text>

Note180 : Observation that Genetics triggers may lead to focus a definition of what is addressed with the word Environment. Genetics indicates how a logic of Code is at the center of life. It may be appropriate to identify as a former important environment with the genetic parental, familial link. This may have based the genesis of our current concept. For this first plural entity has been modified into the entire pool - or even the biochemistry pool of the planet on which human life depend; a leap from a familial to a global environmental notion may keep a commun reference as such field of biochemistry (Genetics). In regards with the Industry, Genetics unifies the notion of social, natural, and perhpas even psychological environments. As mentioned above in the text any treatment of code need to be associated with the Logic of Meaning that is Psychoanlaysis (and/or PLAN). <back to text>

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