Schizophrenic disjunction as cultural style loses its morbid content and yields euphoria.

Evidence

But I mainly wanted to show the way in which what I have been calling schizophrenic disjunction or ecriture, when it becomes generalized as a cultural style, ceases to entertain a necessary relationship to the morbid content we associate with terms like schizophrenia and becomes available for more joyous intensities, for precisely that euphoria which we saw displacing the older affects of anxiety and alienation. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 116

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies that ‘waning of affect’ names a euphoric intensity replacing anxiety and alienation — central to the reader’s core explanatory task.
• XREF: Connects to the idea that aesthetic form becomes a vehicle for affect detached from morbid psychological content — echoes the reader’s thesis that style is the economy’s way of appearing. — connects to: Lyotard’s ethic of schizophrenic desire is survival within capitalism, not revolution — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 69; Revolutionary euphoria can function like a drug with a dangerous comedown — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 913; Cultural loss manifests as invisible psychopathology in those denied alternatives — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1023