ABSTRACT
The psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud led a way to it, and led away from it, pulling up short of accompanying its clinicians into the unpromised land. It is a lucidity we attempt here to build into and pull out of the theoretical edifices of psychoanalysis, structuralism, and Marxism, excavating the very splits—divisions and antagonisms—out of which they grow and become animated, unify, and separate, and which rivet and riven them. In the attempt, we might hope to decathect the word ‘schizo-’ of some of its prejudicial and othering investments; and derive something from, a missed encounter, between structuralism and the schizoanalytic project—too readily projected into a beyond; that of ‘poststructuralism’—through an archaeology of divisions: in structure, surface, temporality, class struggle. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
