ill & lunatic: --- is there god in a dog?

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

Thomas Eckhardt schrieb:

> >   sloth' psycho-spiritual "de-armorment" can be understood as a psychotic
> >   development (this would be the observation according to so called
> >   "scientific materialism"), or as a journey into bliss ... it's our
> >   choice!
>
> Just a few random thoughts: This would refer to the notion of late
>  Romanticism and
> early Modernism (Baudelaire etc.) that the madman is not mad but a genius
> overflowing with creative juices who is put into prison or Bedlam by a
>  restrictive
> and rational society that cannot bear his or her transgressions. It also fits
>  in
> nicely with Foucault's "Überwachen und Strafen" (sorry, I can't remember the
>  English
> title), a brillant historical examination of the development of the
>  distinction
> between sane and insane in Western civilization.

  makes me think of "l'anti-oedipe" [1972] by deleuze & guattari, who get 
  mentioned in vineland. in that study on capitalism and schizophrenia we find 
  lots of passages that can be connected to slothrop's trip: " ... the neurotic 
  remains embedded in the resisual and artificial territorialities of our 
  society and lets them swear in to oedipus as the hightest territoriality, 
  which reconstitutes in the analyst's room on the full body of the 
  psychoanalyst (yes, the industrialist is the father, and the president too, 
  and you too, herr doktor ...). the pervert then takes the artifact literally: 
  you want them, and you will get them ... more artificial territrialities even 
  than those offered us by society, boundlessly artificial new families, 
  mysterious queer scieties. finally, the schizo, staggering & stumbling all the 
  time, incessantly wandering, getting lost deeper and deeper into the 
  de-territorialization, on his organ-less body meditating into the endless 
  social decomposition: perhaps these strange ways, the schizo's roaming about, 
  will let him find again the earth ..." (own translation from chapter one).


  ... & our brother sloth he made it ... kfl