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Chaosmosis

Between the end of the 1970s and the start of the 1980s, I happened

several times to accompany Félix to the La Borde Clinic where he

worked as a psychiatrist. La Borde is a short distance from Dhuizon

where Félix lived. He had a house surrounded by trees, and it was there

that he wrote, not in Paris, in the house on the rue de Condé crowded

with friends, exiles passing through, and fascinating women.

Sometimes Félix invited me to participate in the activities organized at

La Borde by the guests at the clinic. I remember him asking me to hold

a conference on free radios. There was a small crowd there to hear me,

all seated on chairs arranged pell-mell, and I told Italian stories. At the

end, a woman of a certain age took the floor to express her sympathy

for Stalin and for comrade Togliatti, both of whom by then had been

dead for quite a few years. At the same time, a Japanese dance troupe

with painted faces, I forget the name, came to La Borde, and in the

clinic’s big courtyard they moved among the dismayed patients

making improvised movements that cut through the air followed by

long immobile suspensions.

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In an apparently simple and spontaneous way, Félix made connections

between the traditionally separate territories of politics and psycho-

analysis, of militancy and the cure. The connection point is the con-

cept of the singularity of chaosmosis. And this connection point

is singular, unrepeatable and different each time the connection

occurs.

Guattari’s contribution to the problematics of analysis and of the cure

is called schizoanalysis. Schizoanalysis is not only a psychotherapeutic

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