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Reading of Deleuze & Guattari "Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia" chapter 1 of part 1 (episode 2)

Hii!!! Im back and...late again so its going to be just one parahraph again (raaah)

"A schizophrenic out for a walk is a better model than a neurotic lying on the analyst's couch."  

starts of marvelously

This paragraph I think is very clear, it puts emphasis on our connection with the outside, we are NOT separate from the rest of the world AT ALL. 
Authors here use example of Lenz from an unfinished novella by Georg Buchner written in 1836 . 
We dont need to know anything about Lenz except what D&G tell us (that is preety much everything relevant as there is not much more going on in the fragment either way)
Lenz takes a stroll in the moutains and has a little bit of a revelation/psychotic moment in which boundaries between him and rest of the world dissolve completely, he projects himself onto the moutains, plants, rocks, stars and so on...so so different than when he is talking with a pastor who tells him to cofess stuff about his family, secret, feelings etc...very much like an analyst..and that is not a good sign.

Lenz even says something counter-Freudian before Freud: "What does my father want? Can he offer me more than that? Impossible. Leave me in peace." 

Why D&G use this example? to show that:
a) not everything regarding mental health goes through or from family influence (this may seem slightly obvious now but Deleuze fights with Freud on quite literal terms for now, but he wouldnt write whole 400 page long book if it was about what is on the surface, would he?)
b) institutions are opressive, even ones that try to help, they may help but they are still opressive, Im sure this priest did what he was told to do when some poor soul comes to him, but meaning well is not enough

What is "repressed"? Its certainly not "health" but rather its..an internal creative process of Lenz (showing through his unexpected ego dissolution), some sort of reality constituting drive, a certain tint of glasses we wear to experience reality one way

Is it good? No, its good to have possibilities, but obviously it can slide down into pathology of mental ilness or addiction. I think what they want to tell us is that the "psychoanalytic" thing they critique is not really "psychoanalytic" at all, but rather its multi-faced, bigger, woven into the structre of society (with example of church, and church never was supposed to be connected with psychoanalysis and vicerversa, well how things turn)

Last part of the paragraph is an important statement: "He does not live nature as nature, but as a process of production. There is no such thing as either man or nature now, only a process that produces the one within the other and couples the machines together. Producing-machines, desiring-machines everywhere, schizophrenic machines, all of species life: the self and the non-self, outside and inside, no longer have any meaning whatsoever"

We already know that nature and us are not distinct things, then we have list of machines...which STILL we dont know what that means beacuse D&G enjoy throwing unexplained terms at the reader (ig it is quite fun when you think about it) and then the last part after ":" that is...RADICAL MONISM, is Deleuze a monist?? (beliving only one substance fundamentally exists without distinctions) I...dont know yet, but it certainly points to this type of horizon, what we do know is that there is some sort of even more radical "horizontality" as authors equate everything with itself, there is no transcendent or higher realm (as example some real of pure mathematics), everything is equal machinery producing (whatever that means) HERE in this world, not on some abstract unrelated metaphysical plane, i.e. Deleuze and Guattari fit the lineage of "philosophers of immanence" that is one with Spinoza and Nietzsche (other one is transcendent one with Kant and Husserl most explicitly but it preety much starts with Plato and goes through christianity and Descartes and german idealism)

That was quick, but sadly im sleepy so I wont write more, I feel we are getting..somewhere (but thats just 2 paragraphs)

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