1. --briefly outline Jameson's conception of "schizophrenic writing"** >

2. --briefly look at Lacan's conception of "schizophrenia" as a negative psychosis (constituted by lack);

3. --contrast to Deleuze & Guattari's view of schizophrenia as a positive/(anti-fascist) model;

4. --demonstrate the form of Lanark as non-chronological (easy to do: it starts with book 3 -- there are easily 5 different points which could be "the beginning");

5. --demonstrate the novel's non-chronology as generative of ontological uncertainty/destabilization of the "identity";

6. --consider the possibility of the schizophrenic form of the novel as liberating/emancipatory; contrast to the stabilizing/fascist "paranoia" of the actual characters

:: This last is an important distinction which I will need to argue: the form of the novel is schizophrenic, the content of the novel is paranoid.

**This serves two purposes, namely: (1) to provide a to-the-point description of Lacan's conception of the process of schizophrenia (Lacan isn't nearly as succinct, of course); and (2) to situate my analysis along the lines of a socio-critical literary analysis, not a clinical-psychoanalytic analysis. This is why I'm starting with Jameson, when it's Deleuze & Guattari who provide the main theoretical foundation for the paper.