What is the body that is organised? What is the revolutionary body? Focusing on Guattari’s machinic materialism, and contrasting it with a Skinnerian ‘black box behavioursm’, opens up an understanding of both time and subjectivity as they operate inside the development of revolutionary groups.

Part of a dialogue with the psychoanalyst Chris Oakley, this paper looks at the role of the analytic encounter in comparison with the activities of the sorcerer, in particular focusing on the role of body-organisation as encountered in trance and transference.