Philosophy versus ego destruction

Dear KP,

This is another note, beside the one which relates to the msg Re:Zar.
This note is about some mentions in your posts.
For the moment, it seems that I have no time for writing anything but notes.

I fell I must comment on your :

>...the way you have done with the ART OF MEMORY.
>You have followed that structure carefully and have related it
>to the theory of Freud/Lacan closely in order to have a theoretical
>basis for your practice.

You also wrote
>You have founded your Plural Analysis on Simonides ART OF
>MEMORY structure

I am convinced that this is meeting something important regarding our projects - and/or the desire. I must make clear how I came to the Art of Memory.

In brief : my first act in the field of Psychoanalysis, has addressed the classical impossibility (which was worrying the Parisian community) to forge a procedure which would guaranty the quality of a Psychoanalyst - so I subverted the aporia and declared that - since no peer or diploma could be of use, the guaranty would be given by the satisfaction of the patients. In the field of medicine, my claim was an heresy.
I could only shoulder on Law to go forward against the prejudices.
The French legislation was giving an opportunity with a certain tool called - Association.1901 - I can produce an article/lecture given in New-Zealand which details all this complex phase.
Once my patients agreed to form an Association.1901, we were only facing a second step: while the Association.1901 was protecting my psychoanalysis - by reciprocity my psychoanalysis had to adjust with its new frame. And it is this adjustment which gave birth to PLural ANalysis.

As a matter of fact - I was at the same time that I was ascribed (by chance) to began the research on HAMO. It was in the most awkward circumstances since, for some reason, my original intention was to exclude the possibility that Akhnaton could be Moses (re: bellow, the reason why I mention the fact).
The research began with AM, then AMO - and only then after HAMO. From the moment I had integrated Hermes Trismegistus It was natural to connect with F.A.Yates. And only once I had made this connection, I opened for the first time the book The Art of Memory and... reading the opening page of the book, I realized that I was reading the description of PLural ANalysis by Cicero...(!). Actually he attributed the method to a Simonides and named it the Art of Memory.

So you understand the reason of my note :

I have not exactly founded my Plural Analysis on Simonides ART OF MEMORY structure - nor I have followed that structure carefully and have related it to the theory of Freud/Lacan. Things happened the other way round.
I believe it is important for us to be aware of this - for indeed I also admit that, from a certain perspective, PLAN is founded on the AoM, of which it has 'carefully followed the structure'; but this perspective is the point of view of the Unconscious.

I wonder if philosophy as ever integrated a method comparable to Psychoanalysis - in the sense that psychoanalysis is a 'position' which always, always sets its performance in an awkward result (it may be what you call science). It is exhausting and exhilarating - supposed, by Freud, to hit the Narcissism.

Even the way we have met is there to show. I have always believed that Artificial intelligence would be the only tool that could let my signification pass through the very tightened stitches of the solitary confinement I am imprisoned in. And it is with a software which was supposed to exclude me that you met me and took knowledge of my text! footnote

Psychoanalysis may be a neurosis (Freud) or a psychosis (Lacan) that causes systematically a surprise. To begin with the conter-proof that Akhnaton cannot be Moses - to continue with the dissident constitution of PLAN to realize that Psychoanalysis is nothing but the unaware practice of the Art of Memory. It looks like a methods that proves what one wants to conceal, that distinguishes through elimination, that de-identifies what one wants to defend.

{ I - William THEAUX, NYC 97/12/13 15:02:18 - attach this piece in order to alter the idea that psychoanalysis could set its agent in control; unless in an imaginary position}

William THEAUX, NYC 97/12/07 18:51:49





NOTE : As K.Palmer said: we bumped into each other by accident - as he was testing an experimental software who automatically replied to me : You have spammed my e-mail account with an unsolicited e-mail ! advertisement.Offence under US code Title 47, Sec 227(b) (1) (C) etc.., when he received a regular mail-list post of mine. We exchanged explanation and the SPAM Exterminator was eventually incriminated - so we began an interesting correspondence back to text.