The apogee of Modern Medicine is the universality of Dis-Ease. Achieved by the injunction: “Be Normal!”. Which paradoxically forbids normality; and is the injunction of a masculine phallocentric Medical Establishment.

If for now we Agee that Medical Perverts exist – who have a psychical structure of ‘perversion’ with the object of their medical practice. Which is to say those who are driven to constantly re-break and re-make their own Great Law, behave as Obscene Fathers, as the Primal phantasmatic Father come to life. Those such as paediatricians Meadow and Southall responsible for the wrongful surveillance of and imprisonment of mothers accusing them wrongly of murdering their babies. Creating a dis-ease to fulfil their libidinal needs, where no dis-ease exists : Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy. If we agree these Perverted Psyches function we can ask: why do they?

Are they the inevitable result of the present antagonisms within the neurotic (majority) structure of the dominant ideology (which it is the role of the critical intellectual to keep open) and which is the aporia of the zero point between meaning and non meaning, arising within Medicine within a framework enclosed by the normality-pathology opposition. This is like the Subject-Object opposition – the result of diagnostic processes being applied to the healthy asymptomatic individual – a process otherwise known as screening; the apparently harmless innocent (and profitable for some) ‘health check’. A process which abhors the vacuum of knowledge which is not-knowing: why do cot deaths occur? Why do cancers occur? Why do people become Crack, Heroin or Alcohol addicts? Why do people become depressed? These questions all become sites of struggle and the sites of creation of diseases, overdiagnosis, medicalisation, the manufacture of the de novo patient and medical hegemony.

The process of diagnosis for the asymptomatic individual does two things, firstly it confronts Medicine with the uninterpretable tissue representation of an ‘unknown’ anticipated future and secondly and conversely it a performs a misrecognition as it names the tissue to provide an assertion of ‘known’ anticipated certainty that transforms the individual into a now reified patient. The misrecognition in diagnosis reveals the structurally unavailable Truth – the encounter with the zero point of just ‘not knowing’ results in the misrecognition. It is possible, since the representation can never be adequate to the thing in itself, that this produces a libidinally charged remainder, an ineffable left over sufficient to excite further creation – the creation of the horror of the phantasmagorical apparition that is the Medical Pervert, the Obscene Father, a phantasm become real. Only visible because of the materially concrete actions and transgressive behaviours that break The Law (of the Medical Establishment resulting in a public defrocking by the GMC), whilst exposing precisely that which has secretly been sustaining that same Law all along. The Medical Pervert for example publicly stereotypes the always already guilty murdering-mother, and creates a new syndrome to match the MSBP; a bit like saying serial murderers all suffer from a medical syndrome, a fatal assault by proxy syndrome.

Across Medical practice the population at large is named as universally dis-ease ridden, this is the apogee of Modern Medicine.

Q. Is the pervert constantly looking himself in the eye and seeing Evil, with a gaze that directed outwards seeks out and names Evil In an excluded other, such as the murdering-mother?
Or do we all have a tendency to do this, part of our cultural prejudiced heritage?