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Communication and unconsciousness in the age of schizophrenia -Focusing on Deleuze and Guattari's schizophrenia analysis

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2024, (45), pp.57~90
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2024..45.003
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : May 25, 2024
  • Accepted : June 25, 2024
  • Published : June 30, 2024

Chang-ho Oh 1

1부경대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper is a theoretical work to understand communication styles in the era of schizophrenia from a psychodynamic perspective. In particular, we will examine Deleuze and Guattari’s discussion of schizophrenia analysis. Given that the general discussion on communication is mainly focused on conscious activities, it was made with the awareness that communication theory would only be a lame understanding at best if it was not supported by a discussion on the level of the unconscious. The originality of Deleuze and Guattari’s schizophrenia analysis is that they criticize the previous Freud-centered psychoanalysis theory for being based on several fundamental errors and present schizophrenia theory as an alternative. Moreover, the starting point of such work is that schizophrenia analysis theory positions the ‘recovery of the ego’, which psychoanalytic theory considers as an achievement of treatment, as the beginning of the problem. In other words, the assumption of a unified and integrated overall ego is a wrong assumption and results in justifying social oppression, so starting from a dispersed, fragmented and partial, in other words, fragmented body, we can reach a ‘body without organs’ to become free and free. My goal is to lead a creative life. In this paper, we took inspiration and hints from Deleuze and Guattari’s theoretical research results and sought a solution to the existential communication problem where ‘beings from different planets must live together on the same Earth’.

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