ECC = Essays Critical and Clinical - they're all from the essay on Lawrence
and Nietzsche, John of Patmos and St. Paul
Steve
At 01:47 AM 17/11/1999 +0000, you wrote:
>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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