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(2018) Lacan and the posthuman, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
I keep up with research on schizophrenia because my brother Steve has it. (Hence, reading Deleuze and Guattari is always a little strange for me, shall we say.) One hypothesis is that a neurotoxin released by toxoplasmosis gives rise to symptoms of schizophrenia and possibly Alzheimer's. Toxoplasmosis is caused by Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan symbiont that lives in most people's brains harmlessly. Cats are common hosts, and cat poop contains a lot of the protozoans. One theory is that cat poop near to pregnant humans is a way for the symbiont to jump. One in five of us humans carry the symbiont.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-76327-9_11
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Morton, T. (2018)., Melancholy objects: if stones were Lacanian, in S. Matviyenko & J. Roof (eds.), Lacan and the posthuman, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 193-209.
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