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Schizoanalysis
An anarchist response to the Lacanian psychoanalysis that was developed above all by Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze in France in the 1970s, aiming at a growing dividual heterogeneity in every way rather than the individual homogeneity that the schizoanalysts consider themselves to have found in their predecessors Freud and Lacan. Schizoanalysis becomes newly topical in Bard & Söderqvist who in the 21st century connect it to the growing Internet society with its oceans of schizoid identity production.
The Zizekian abjective subject is fundamentally internally divided. The split within the subject precedes and is also the prerequisite for the ensuing distinction between the subject and the object. The subject is thus a reaction against its own cause; its modus operandi is to constantly rework the constant failure of being its own substance. The subject is quite simply the product of its own failures. Above all it is a product of the failure of the mystery. Only through insight into this state of affairs – let us say obtained through the syntheist schizoanalysis (see The Body Machines) – is the subject’s understanding of and functional relation to the real enabled. In the schizoanalytical process, the syntheist agent gets the chance to construct an infinite number of credible dividual identities within one and the same body. But that which ties all these identities together into one big circle – and makes them one single cohesive agential phenomenon for itself – this is the gaping void in the middle of the circle, Zizek’s abjective subject, Atheos.
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