Beyond Oedipalism: The Flow of Desire in Deleuze and Guattari, and Lawrence

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Through schizophrenia Deleuze and Guattari try to set up a model of Anti-Oedipus which denies the oedipalized, neuroticized territorialities of psychoanalysis. The desiring-machine of schizophrenics exemplifies the deterritorialized flows of desire, the process of life flow leading elsewhere beyond the oedipal codes. Deleuze and Guattari define as the essential reality the process of production of desiring-machine which is one and the same to man and nature.
In addition to the production of desiring-machine, Deleuze and Gattari introduce the third stage of the binary-linear series where the unproductive body without organs is set free and perpetually reinserted into the process of production. This full body without organs forms a surface where all productions are recorded even though it belongs to the realm of antiproduction. In the capitalist society, for example, the use of money and capital constitutes the recording surface of the body without organs on which all the production are recorded.
Thus the interaction between the desiring-machine and the body without organs makes possible a constant social reproduction and gives birth to some machines of different types, a paranoiac machine, a miraculating- machine, a celibate machine, according to the patterns of interaction, or reaction. Regardless of the different patterns of interaction, repulsion, or attraction, however, the relationship of desiring-machine and the body without organs, Deleuze and Guattari assert, establishes "an enchanted recording or inscribing surface that arrogates to itself all the productive forces and all the organs of production, and that acts as a quasi cause by communicating the apparent movement (the fetish) to them" (Anti-Oedipus 11-12).
The body without organs introduces the disjunctive synthesis of recording as a third term overlapping the connective synthesis of production in the binary-linear series. And the subject is produced residually as the desiring-machine passes through an unlimited number of intense nervous states that fill up the body without organs. The schizo like Judge Schreber in Freud's analysis is a typical example of the subject passing through intense states following an endless circle of eternal return.