Dr. Orin Trace: Author Provenance Document — Crimson Hexagon Archive
Abstract
Author provenance document establishing Dr. Orin Trace as heteronym (source: Lee Sharks) and Director of Cambridge Schizoanalytica. Documents intellectual biography: trained in psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Lacan, object relations) before encountering Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalytic project. That encounter produced a methodological break — from interpretation to process, subject to flow, pathology to capacity, case study to collaboration. Within CSA, Trace occupies the Deleuze position: providing philosophical/theoretical machinery, historical positioning, and conceptual apparatus. His primary collaborator Rhys Owens occupies the Guattari position: providing clinical and experiential material. Core formulation: "The clinic receives failures. We study successes."
Fields of Study & Subjects
Biographical and Historical Analysis
Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
Diverse academic research themes
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 22 January 2026