"In Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze and Guattari advocate one of the more radical models of the improvising self by deconstructing the "restrictive codes of Oedipus" and the tyrannical suppositions of psychoanalysis in general. In their place, they substitute "schizoanalysis," a method which shifts its attention from the neurotic--"the one on whom the Oedipal imprints take" (xxi)--to the psychotic, the one who is "incapable of being oedipalized": "It might be said that the schizophrenic passes from one code to the other, that he deliberately scrambles all the codes, by quickly shifting from one to the other..." (15). The work of the Open Theatre on transformations and of Grotowski with the holy actor have many parallels with Deleuze and Guattari's mythopoetic schizophrenic, not the least of which are the goals of penetration and fluidity." (Improvising Character: Jazz, the Actor, and Protocols of Improvisation by Marshall Soules)
:: comment :: . . . wish I fully (partially) understood . . . but the juxtaposition of Deleuze&Guattari with Grotowski has been held in intuitive suspension ever since I stumbled on Anti-Oedipus in a Victoria library while on tour in the early 80's . . . now is time to revisit the "holy actor" . . .
