Anti-Oedipus: BwO Celibate machine? Yep. Let's go back to Schreber . He admits that he dressed like a woman (in private) as a way of coping with his schizo... Dressing like a woman, for Schreber, was the third phase of the BwO. After the paranoiac machine and the miraculating machine. The celibate machine forms a new allegiance between the BwO and desire-machines. The subject often mistakes him/herself for the celibate machine (although it is simply a residuum alongside of desiring-machines and the residual reconciliation that it brings about. The celibate machine exclaims: “So that’s what it was!” A genuine consummation is achieved by the celibate machine. It is auto-erotic, or automatic: “the nuptial celebration of a new alliance, a new birth, a radiant ecstasy, as though the eroticism of the machine liberated other unlimited forces.” (18) So the BwO becomes a nomadic subject, jumping from desiring machine to desiring machine and always "becoming" something else. ok. ok. ok...