I like this thread on the soul. (What does ECC stand for, btw? I can't think
of any title with those initials.)
Bobo
>From: Desiring Machines <da_sein@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: deleuze-guattari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: deleuze-guattari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: cont.4
>Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 04:14:32 EST
>
>In itself, the individual is not necessarily opposed to the collectivity;
>individual and collective stand opposed in each of us like two different
>parts of the soul. (ECC 38)
>
>Christ had invented a religion of love, that is, an aristocratic culture of
>the individual part of the soul; the Apocalypse invents a religion of
>Power,
>that is, a terrible popular cult of the collective part of the soul. The
>Apocalypse turns Christ into a collective ego, it gives him a collective
>soul (ECC 49/50)
>
>In truth, it is Christianity that becomes the Antichrist; it betrays
>Christ, it forces a collective soul on him behind his back, and in return
>it
>gives the collective soul a superficial individual figure, the little lamb.
>Christianity, and above all John of Patmos, founded a new type of man, and
>a
>type of thinker that still exists today, enjoying a new reign: the
>carnivorous lamb, the lamb that bites and then cries, Help! What did I ever
>do to you? It was for your own good and our common cause. (ECC 38/39)
>
>Save the individual soul, then, as well as the collective soul, but how?
>Do not love anymore, do not give of yourself, do not take: in this way you
>will save the individual part of yourself. For love is not the individual
>part, it is not the individual soul, it is rather what makes the individual
>soul an ego The soul as the life of flows is the will to live, struggle and
>combat, like wrestlers engaging each other. Every accord is dissonant The
>inalienable part of the soul appears when one has ceased to be an ego; it
>is
>this eminently flowing, vibrating, struggling part that has to be
>conquered.
> The collective problem, then, is to institute, find, or recover a maximum
>of connections There is no return to nature, but only a political problem
>of the collective soul, the connections of which a society is capable, the
>flows it supports, invents, leaves alone, or does away with. (ECC 51/2)
>
>
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