For we must not delude ourselves: Freud doesn’t like schizophrenics. He doesn’t like their resistance to being oedipalized, and tends to treat them more or less as animals. They mistake words for things, he says. They are apathetic, narcissistic, cut off from reality, incapable of achieving transference; they resemble philosophers –“an undesirable resemblance” (23). According to Deleuze and Guattari, Freud does not like the schizophrenic because s/he is a direct affront to Freud’s psychoanalytic system. The schizophrenic has not developed an ego, or gone through the Oedipal process of individuation. Thus, the schizoid is “somewhere else, beyond or behind or below” the Oedipal triad that is so central to Freudian analysis (23). The schizoid has no “me” and hence does not have an unconscious that is preoccupied with the Oedipal drama of daddy, mommy, and me.
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