So _becoming_ is a process, if you like, of desubjectification. Whereby the subject, I, ceases to be, or ceases to consider itself as a bounded entity such as the ego, with a defined relation to an outside, and becomes instead an unbounded entity that knows a thousand different names. And they often quote from Nijinsky: I am God, I was not God, I am a clown of God, I am Apis, I am an Egyptian, and so on.
Now these names have no meaning in themselves. The names should not be construed as identifications (in the psychoanalytic sense), because the schizo does not retain any sense of an I as such; the schizo moves through these identities in the manner of a nomad, stopping here and there but never for long.
So schizoanalysis, as Deleuze and Guattari conceived it, was invented to try and read and map this state of being, which is essentially pathological, and grasp the specific logic of becoming that defines the schizo experience.
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