ABSTRACT
Opening up to the outside, where things are different from the territory we
know and inhabit, has its dangers. If we make it a constant habit then we might
find that we have lost any sense of who we are, and have become
schizophrenic. In Capitalism and Schizophrenia Deleuze and Guattari embrace
this tendency. For example, Jakob Lenz (1751-92) who wanders through the
opening pages of Anti-Oedipus, finds himself involved with his surroundings to
an extraordinary degree. He was born in Livonia (now Latvia) as part of its
German elite, and he went to study in Germany, where he fell in with Goethe
and the group of Romantic poets belonging to the Sturm und Drang group.
