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October 26, 2005
In Dialogues 11 Gilles Delueze comments that many things have changed with psychoanalysis and that it has gone into two opposing directions:
Either it has swamped, it is spread into all sorts of techniques of therapy, of adjustment or even marketing ..Or it has hardened , in a refinement , a very 'lofty' return to Freud...(p.82)
Nothwithstanding this Deleuze states that there is change, if not evolution. One example he gives of this is the way that:
...psychoanalysis has displaced its centre --from the family to married life. It sets up between spouses, lovers or friends rather than between parents and children.
Well yes. But then hasn't the pattern of mental illness changed--away from neurosis to depressants? Didn't psychoanalysis work with a descredited model of the family?
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