ABSTRACT
The work of Beckett and Antonin Artaud supplies Deleuze and Guattari with compelling illustrations of the distinctive markers of the schizoid state. The subjects of schizoanalysis are sites of 'desiring-production'. Beckett's prose trilogy is called on to illustrate the theorist's celebrated opposition between the schizophrenic 'out for a walk', in touch with the unconscious reality of capitalist society, and the neurotic on the Freudian couch, enclosed in Oedipal false consciousness. The schizophrenic engages in his own process of producing, choosing his own modes and metaphors. His stroll is mirrored in the activities of Beckett's characters: not least, Molloy's 'circuit of distribution' made up of sucking stones, a crucial passage, which reappears at the end of Deleuze and Guattari's book. At the end of Malone Dies, Lady Pedal takes the schizophrenics out for a ride in a van and a rowboat, and on a picnic in the midst of nature: an infernal machine is being assembled.
