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Reich writes: "l’homme doit de souffrir au fait qu’il est la seule espèce biologique capable de détruire sa propre fonction sexuelle naturelle ". Let us set aside this meager, yet stinging observation that the English original is, on this point, far more categorical than its French version: "man is the sole biological species that has destroyed its own natural sexual function and is sick as a consequence of this." There are, in fact, two important differences whose scope exce

Psychiatry weaves the field of its practice around the madman and with its instruments (cold showers, the rotary chair...). We pretend to ignore this violence—primary in relation to said centering—that by wanting to "place him at the center," the psychiatrist adjusts, levels, flattens this field that madness destabilizes, at the very moment it fails to conjure its appearance: we never speak of the "madman" without making him a noun, without producing him in his place and, cro