method, but also a way of conceiving of the relationship between
singularity and its chaosmosis, that is, its conceptual, artistic, psychic,
existential, political, relational and linguistic creations – the creations
that constitute the world as a particular plane on which it is
possible to start walking toward the encounter with other
singularities.
The schizoanalytic conception is based on the idea that psycho-
genesis is singular, and thus therapy must be singular as well. This
conception does not originate in the isolated field of psychotherapy
as a result of a reflection on psychoanalysis, but belongs to a process
of philosophical mutation that disperses models of solid think-
ing and introduces fluid thinking as a prevalent modality of under-
standing. Liquid, gaseous, psychochemical – and no longer mechanical- thinking.
By reviewing the formative lines of Guattari’s thought, we can see
through which concepts, thematic displacements and manipulations
of word-tools he managed to put in movement weightless architectures
of thought and therapeutic games of language.
‘Happiness’ (felicità) can seem a corny and banal word lacking
philosophical content, an embarrassing word naming something
impossible, an objective that we are all destined to miss. With
this word, however, I intend to refer to the relationship between the
singular drift and the cosmic game, because happiness and unhappi-
ness are possible modes of this relationship. The harmony between sin-
gular drift and cosmic game is situated in the utopic point where
identitarian obsessions and rigid refrains are dissolved. When this con-
dition occurs, it is then possible to move with the lightness of someone
who doesn’t defend anything, someone who’s not shackled by any
identity or possession. This lightness means being the flow, not follow-
ing it.
The weightless singularity does not presuppose any sense, nor does
it discover any sense through its experience in the world. Sense unfolds
as creation, as a connecting desire, as the delirium that illuminates
the event. Schizoanalysis wants to make lightness possible, dissolving
obsessions and rigid refrains through techniques aimed at displacing
the focus of attention, through the proliferation of points from which
semiotic flows, flows of worlds, can emanate.
If chaosmosis is the process through which singular creativity gives
its own order to the chaotic constellations that circumscribe the con-
scious organism, then schizoanalysis proposes to act as an ecology of
the mind and a therapy of becoming world.
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