Anti-Oedipus: BwO But weren’t we talking about desire and subjectivity? Is the BwO a real body or some sort of metaphor for capitalism? Well, D&G don’t really beleive in metaphor. They throw notions of representation or modeling out the window. For D&G, we are always “becoming.” So, in essense, we can become capital and capital can become us. It’s about the processes, the production of desire/consumption. They slip between the two by using words like consumption and consummation interchangeably. They’re sneaky like that... trying to make us think of ourselves outside of our ‘selves’.... trying to forge new connections between things that don’t traditionally fit together. However, D&G pick up the BwO again in relation to the surface as recording device: "... does the recording of desire go by way of the various stages in the formation of the Oedipus complex? Disjunctions are the form that the genealogy of desire assumes; but is this genealogy Oedipal, is it recorded in the Oedipal triangulation?" (p. 13). Here’s that sneaky “disjunction” again. This time, it refers to ways in which the body records what the psychotherapist tells him about his relationship to the Oedipal triangle. “ One can easily imagine Schreber answering Freud: “Yes, I quite agree, naturally the talking birds are young girls, and the superior God is my daddy and the inferior God my brother.” But little by little he will surreptitiously “reimpregnate” the series of young girls with all talking birds, his father with the superior God, and his brother with the inferior God, all of them divine forms that become complicated, or rather “desimplified” as they break through the simplistic terms and functions of the Oedipal triangle.” (AO 14). First of all, oedipalization and familialism involves a disjunctive synthesis in that it assigns to desiring production another (and false) genealogy. The surface of Schreber’s BwO becomes a recording device in which the divine forms are inscribed upon his experience, clinging like barnacles to his body without organs. And just as capital takes on the value of labor (by miraculating), thus the BwO takes on those stuck-on attributes. “ The full body without organs is produced as anti-production, that is to say it intervenes within the process as such for the sole purpose of rejecting any attempt to impose on it any sort of triangulation implying that is was produced by parents. How could this body have been produced by parents, which by its very nature it is such eloquent witness of its own self-production, of its own engendering of itself?… The schizo has his own set of coordinates for situating himself at his disposal, because, first of all, he has at his disposal his very own recording code, wihich does not coincide with the social code, or coincides with it only in order to parody it…” (15). Ok. That's a little better.