Self Study. Notes on the Schizoid State

The book by New York philosopher David Kishik, author of the Russian-translated work in fiction-philosophy, Manhattan Project. The Theory of the City is organized like a notebook with notes that capture some stages of the long path of solitude through the history of thought, which has led to today’s society of subjects locked up tight within themselves in liberal capitalism. By dissecting his life and work through a wide intertext, including psychoanalysis, primarily Gantryp, Fairburn, and Lacan, autofiction literature, philosophy, and cultural theory, Kishik not only reveals the life of texts within himself — in his autonomous, outwardly quiet, but internally rich thinking, in his biography and sexuality — but also demonstrates an inspiring way of living in the philosophical dimension