Against Integration

To become individualized, finding an 'internal locus of evaluation' is the first step in human exploration. The second is to become a dividual, to embrace our multiplicity. The journey is from monad to nomad, from subjectivity to multiplicity. Neither the therapist nor the client needs integration. Integration is repressive: it tries to re-absorb something which has been 'split off', so that the self becomes a 'manager' of organismic experiencing. The idea, in other words, is to work not as the police but as psychotherapists, not as 'fixers' but as fellow explorers, embracing a joyous and risky dimension of play and experimentation.