The Soul Is The Effect

What Is Constitutive Is The Action That Divides Madness, And Not The Science Elaborated Once This Division Is Made.

Education May Well Be, As Of Right, The Instrument Whereby Every Individual, In A Society Like Our Own, Can Gain Access To Any Kind Of Discourse. But We Well Know That In Its Distribution, In What It Permits And In What It Prevents, It Follows The Well-trodden Battle-lines Of Social Conflict. Every Educational System Is A Political Means Of Maintaining Or Of Modifying The Appropriation Of Discourse, With The Knowledge And The Powers It Carries With It.

To Seek In The Great Accumulation Of The Already-said The Text That Resembles "in Advance" A Later Text, To Ransack History In Order To Rediscover The Play Of Anticipations Or Echoes, To Go Right Back To The First Seeds Or To Go Forward To The Last Traces, To Reveal In A Work Its Fidelity To Tradition Or Its Irreducible Uniqueness, To Raise Or Lower Its Stock Of Originality, To Say That The Port -royal Grammarians Invented Nothing, Or To Discover That Cuvier Had More Predecessors Than One Thought, These Are Harmless Enough Amusements For Historians Who Refuse To Grow Up.

I Belong To That Generation Who, As Students, Had Before Their Eyes, And Were Limited By, A Horizon Consisting Of Marxism, Phenomenology And Existentialism. For Me The Break Was First Beckett's Waiting For Godot, A Breathtaking Performance.

You Know The Difference Between A Real Science And A Pseudoscience? A Real Science Recognizes And Accepts Its Own History Without Feeling Attacked. When You Tell A Psychiatrist His Mental Institution Came From A Lazar House, He Becomes Infuriated.