...set up an intolerable swjnv ming of tEe brain. The idea that I was two per. lions, that my idenfity was double, began to fascinate me with its simple...hastily dressing, opened the door of my room and went down-stairs. The hour was very early, it being not yet fairly light, and I found no one in the lower...

...Guattari have described as endemic to the "schizophrenic subject."61 As this crisis abates, West observes, "The idea that I was two persons, that my identity...fascinate me with its simple solution of my experience" (LB, 66). A similar doubling occurs at a number of other places in the narrative. During this first...

...together in apparently irretrievable chaos. There were no rallying points, nothing was left stable [...] The idea that I was two persons, that my identity...fascinate me with its simple solution of my experience. (LB 66) Der fiktionale Text formuliert und antizipiert Einsichten, die von der neueren Identitätstheorie...

...(New York, 1968), p. 168. Julian West, the protagonist of Bellamy's much-read magnum opus, observes: "The idea that I was two persons, that my identity...fascinate me with its simple solution of my experience" (Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward [1888; reprint, New York, 1982], p. 78). 86. Christopher Lasch, The...