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>>> anti-oedipus - Deleuze and Guattari

"We are all Archie Bunker at the theater, shouting out before Oedipus:
there's my kind of guy, there's my kind of guy!" (Viking, 1977, p. 308)<<<

"The founding of the despotic machine or the barbarian socius can be
summarized in the following way: a new alliance and direct filiation. the
despot challenges the lateral alliances and the extended filiations of the
old community. He imposes a new alliance system and places himself in direct
filiation with the deity: the people must follow. A leap into a new
alliance, a break with the ancient filiation--this is expressed in a strange
machine, or rather a machine of the strange whose locus is the desert,
imposing the harshest and the most barren of ordeals, and attesting to the
resistance of an old order as well as to the validation of the new order.
The machine of the strange is both a great paranoiac machine, since it
expresses the struggle with the old system, and already a glorious celibate
machine, insofar as it exalts the triumph of the new alliance. The despot is
the paranoiac: there is no longer any reason to forego such a statement,
once one has freed oneself from the characteristic familialism of the
concept of paranoia in psychoanalysis and psychiatry, provided one sees in
paranoia a type of investment of a social formation. And new perverse groups
spread the despot's invention, broadcast his fame, and impose his power in
the towns they found or conquer. Wherever a despot and his army pass,
doctors, priests, scribes, and officials are part of the procession. It
might be said that the ancient complementarity has shifted to form a new
socius: no longer the bush paranoiac and the encampment of village perverts,
but the desert paranoiac and the town perverts." (Univ. of Minn. Press,
p192f)