Status Updates From Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism an...

The Oedipus critique is definitely good thus far (as a stand-in for any symptomatic, normative reading that psychology in general reduces a patient to, not just psychoanalysis recoding life), but 1) it’s definitely Guattari heavy 2) it feels like it takes up too much time in the work.

Good insofar as based on Lacan, awful insofar as based on Nietzsche

"Simply stated, the eye extracts from the pain it is contemplating a surplus value of code that compensates the broken relationship between the voice of alliance that the criminal has wronged, and the mark that had not sufficiently penetrated his body. The crime... re-established by the spectacle of the punishment: as primitive justice, territorial representation has foreseen everything." p. 191