Re: [Marxism] Chris Hedges on [schizophrenia] the military-industrial-academic

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Max Clark wrote:
> Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: 'The schizophrenic deliberately seeks out 
> the very limit of capitalism: he is its inherent tendency brought to 
> fulfullment, its surplus product, its proletariat, and its exterminating 
> angel..'
> 
> As a clinically diagnosed schizophrenic, I must judge the following 
> (reiteration of Adorno) from Chris Hedges an malicious fallacy: 
> 
> "those manipulative people [i.e. capitalists], who actually are incapable of 
> true 
> experience [?], for that very reason manifest an unresponsiveness [?] that 
> associates them with certain mentally ill or psychotic characters, 
> namely schizoids."
> 

I strongly support Max's objection to this crapola.

A while back I wrote a long article on how schizophrenia was 
misrepresented both in popular culture--film specifically--and how 
Freudianism (of the kind that influenced Deleuze and Guattari) served as 
an enabler in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" ad nauseum.


http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/culture/madness.htm

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