Chaosophy - autonomous learning

eyond a threshold of intensity with his very body. Biologists
speak of the egg, and the body of the schizophrenic is a kind of
egg; it is a catatonic body, in all respects like an egg. So when a
schizophrenic says ''I'm becoming God, I'm becoming a woman"
it's as though he were crossing what biologists call a gradient, a
threshold of intensity, he's going beyond it, above it, etc. And traditional
analysis takes into account none of this experience.
Meanwhile the experimental pharmaceutical treatments relating
to schizophrenia- treatments which are so badly applied todaycould
be very productive. These pharmaceutical studies, after all,
this research on drugs, puts the problem in terms of a variation in
the metabolism of intensity. The schizophrenic's "I feel that" has
to be seen as reflecting transitions, gradations of intensity. So the
difference between our conception and Arieti's, with all due
respect for Arieti's work, lies in the fact that we interpret schizophrenia
as the experience of intensification.
But what is meant by the "intelligibility" o/schizophrenic discourse
Felix Guattari: We have to see whether the coherence derives from
the level of rational expression, or from a semantic level, or from
a level that we could call "mechanical" (machine-like).
After all, for purposes of representation we all get by as best we
can. Whether it's the scientist attempting to reconstitute something
on the level of expression, or the schizophrenic. But the
latter, with the means that he has within himself, with the means
that he has available, doesn't have the possibility of rendering
intelligible that which he's trying to reconstitute. In this sense, we
can say that the descriptions furnished to us by psychoanalysisdescriptions
which for simplicity's sake we will call Oedipalconstitute
a repressive representation. Even some important
authors, including some that have gone far in their exploration of