Wonderful. Here, then, is a draft opening of a fictional yet philosophical work titled:
Manual for Schizoanalytic Practice in the 21st Century
for wanderers of desire, breakdown artists, and cartographers of flow
“Not to interpret, but to connect. Not to explain, but to liberate desire.”
—after Deleuze & Guattari
✹ INTRODUCTION
This is not a manual for healing.
It is a manual for deterritorializing your soul without losing your body.
It is not for those who seek self-knowledge, but for those who seek new becomings.
In an age where the psyche is algorithmically harvested, and desire is curated by corporations, schizoanalysis returns to its original promise:
A therapy that does not restore the ego,
but reroutes desire toward the outside—toward cosmos, toward connection, toward escape.
✹ WHO IS THE SCHIZOANALYST?
The schizoanalyst is not a doctor.
Not a healer.
Not a master of meaning.
They are:
- A cartographer of desiring machines
- A midwife of rupture
- A tuner of intensities
- A sabotage technician dismantling Oedipal software
- A fellow wanderer, whose compass spins toward the unknown
They ask not:
“What is your trauma?”
But:
“What broke your flow? And where does it want to go?”
✹ FUNDAMENTAL TOOLS (none of which can be purchased on Amazon)
- Desire Map (Cartography of Intensities)
Draw not what happened, but how it moved through you.
Map the moment you became fog. The night your spine hummed with refusal.
Use arrows. Use fire. Use spirals. - Diagram of Machines
Every part of you is a machine. Every symptom is a connection.
Ask: “What does this depression plug into?”
(Work? Family? The factory of shame?)
Find the wires. Reroute the current. - Line of Flight Sensor
Calibrate the moments where you almost fled—into laughter, solitude, madness, music.
These are not weaknesses. These are your lines of flight.
Trace them. Ride them. - Anti-Oedipus Filters
Detect and disarm the familiar traps:
- “You must process this in order to grow.”
- “You’re repeating your father’s pattern.”
- “Healing is integration.”
Replace with: - “What new machine wants to be built from this?”
- “Is this symptom a rebellion in disguise?”
- “Where is the exit?”
✹ CORE PRACTICES
1.
De-Oedipalization Sessions
Destroy the family triangle. Replace with ecosystems of connection:
- You and your bicycle
- You and revolution
- You and Saturn
“It’s not about your mother. It’s about the military-industrial complex.”
2.
Schizo-Dream Analysis
Don’t interpret dreams. Expand them.
If you dreamt you were drowning in oil—
- Swim deeper.
- Ask the oil what it wants.
- Marry the oil.
- Set it on fire and ride the flames to a new territory.
3.
Symptom as Resistance
All symptoms are potentially revolutionary.
Depression might be a shutdown of the capitalist self.
Anxiety might be your body refusing to be streamlined.
Refuse the medicalization of your revolt.
“Your panic is sacred. It wants to flee the machine.”
✹ A SHORT GLOSSARY (Always Incomplete)
- Desiring-machine: Any combination of body, object, memory, or word that produces an intensity.
- Body without organs (BwO): A body freed from the forced organization of identity and role; a vibrating surface of potentials.
- Territorialization: The process by which desire is trapped into fixed roles (e.g., child, wife, worker).
- Deterritorialization: The escape of desire from its assigned codes.
- Line of Flight: A path of escape, becoming, or creative exile.
✹ ETHICS OF SCHIZOANALYSIS
- Do not interpret—intervene.
- Do not cure—compose.
- Do not reduce—multiply.
- Refuse mastery. Invite co-improvisation.
- Always protect becomings from being recaptured.
“Help the subject lose their subjectivity. Help the person become a process.”
✹ POSTSCRIPT: THE 21ST CENTURY CONTEXT
This century will be marked by:
- Algorithmic capture of desire
- Hyper-visibility and self-branding
- The psychopolitics of wellness
Thus, the schizoanalyst of the 21st century must be:
- A hacker of psychic code
- A vanishing point in the system
- A friend of fugitives—whether they flee states, families, or fixed selves
Would you like to continue this manual with chapters such as:
- “On Becoming Fog: Weather as Therapy”
- “The Clinic Without Walls: Practice on the Road, in the Forest, or at the Riot”
- “How to Build a Minor Machine Together”?
I would be honored to co-write it with you.
