[silence] The Grand/petite narrative of Bharat , Part-IV

[Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay]

  Silence fiction 
The Meta/petite narrative of Bharat, Part-IV (Contd. Posting-7) 
(Summarized and  translated  version of a Bangla pseudo-novel, published in Kalodhvani, 13:1, October, 2005)
  THE “ULTIMATE” DIAGNOSIS?
   
  Let me tell you something about Mitra. Mitra, after reading Laing, once developed a peculiar approach to his therapeutic procedures. He practiced anti-psychiatry and then he read Foucault’s work on madness—after that, he turned to Lacanian psychoanalysis and had become a strong supporter of Ashis Nandy. He did not believe in absolute “scientific universal truth” or international norm for categorizing mental diseases as according to him, everything is a representational fact—facts were represented according the perspective-dependant perceptions of human observer in the context of certain space and time.  
   
  Bharat and Mitra had some interactive compatibility. Mitra knew the academic position of Bharat, as there was an academic mutual intelligibility in between them. Mitra was especially interested in Bharat’s anti-Chomskian hypothesis on Crippled Creativity.  
   
  Now it was a turn for Mitra to diagnose Bharat. He said it is repudiation—a case of rejection, not of repression--Bharat was rejecting the entire symbolic order and there was no visible metaphoric or metonymic supplement for the hole (the absence of symbolic order) that was created in his psyche. It was a complete hole without any trace of “normal” speaking. Therefore, though Mitra categorized it as Psychosis or foreclosure following Lacan, he wanted to put the name of the disease under erasure.  Naming diseases, the categorizations, order of things—everything was undecided. Mitra was suffering from acute aporia—he was living within the (un)truth-room of undecidables. He could not make any topographical map of Bharat’s mind. What would be the remedy then? 
  --“Don’t disturb Bharat’s Truth Room, his own little box of silence. Leave him in his own truth-room. Let us try to enrich his truth-room instead of fitting him in a so-called normal Procrustrean bed.”, thus spoke Mitra. 
   
  (to be concluded) 
  DEBAPRASAD BANDYOPADHYAY 
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