catatonia, n.All

Catatonia (n.) does ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not take death as its model; catatonic schizophrenia gives its model to death — as the authors of horror stories understood.

Catatonia (n.) need ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not mean brain disease: its signs appear there, yet so do hysterical symptoms with proven psychic causes — so never forget the contrary explanation.

Catatonia (n.) may ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be a complex so total it works like brain damage: seizing nearly all association, it leaves a reflex machine, as in a de-brained animal.

Catatonia (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the schizo's refuge from oedipalization: closing the body without organs around himself and silencing his machines — still a countereffect of the same illness.

Catatonia (n.) says ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠'This affect is too strong for me'; the flash says 'The power of this affect sweeps me away' — Kleist's formula, the Japanese fighter interminably still who then moves too fast to see.