Alba Cifuentes Suarez – Servo is Coming

2084… the subject species did not survive! The world is now populated by wandering bodies, outside language, leashed by their Servos. This pet which, as Daniel Roy describes in his text, once seemed so sweet – as difficult as it is to believe – has proven to be a formidable master. Will you say Dystopian? Undoubtedly! In the end […] are we so sure?!

It’s clear that we are not there yet. However, if we go by the many articles that appear each week in a more or less rigorous scientific literature, then nothing can remain unexplained; everything must be investigated and reduced to a precise location in the brain. With respect to this pattern – and Fabian Fajnwaks points it out – that which is excluded is the speech of the subject in its dimension of failure; that of the impossibility of naming it all. And it is this impossible, insofar as it touches the real, which seems today to constitute the point that is unbearable for neuroscience. A common cerebral localisation for a common phenomenon; exit any singular coordinates! Araceli Teixidó demonstrates that in this business what is lost is the subject. The outcome here is at best a confirmation of the effectiveness of a treatment that is valid for all; at worst, one is guilty of not responding as expected to the scientifically proven efficacy of the treatment!

Psychoanalysis does not recoil before this real; it makes of it its object and elevates it to the dignity of the Thing. Manuel Montalbán Peregrín reminds us that rather than scientific, this is of course an ethical question. Pipol 9 and its blog, a-kephalos, seek to echo this continually renewing ethics. Because, beyond that which is at stake in the clinic, it is a question of not shirking that challenge of civilization which Yves Vanderveken describes, as to when the neurosciences as scientist lead to the worst, that is to say, to the disappearance of the subject.

Translation: Raphael Montague