Ah ha. Yes, I should have realized that. Thanks dude.
:) Bobo
>From: Stephen Arnott <sarnott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: deleuze-guattari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: deleuze-guattari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: cont.4
>Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:04:41 +1100
>
>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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