The ‘set of rules’ to which Butler refers in the latter quote above are the same structures that make up the ‘senselessly privileged’ psychoanalytic subject which Deleuze and Guattari urge their readers to move beyond (Deleuze and Guattari 1983: 298). Deleuze and Guattari critique the ways in which capitalism axiomatises the psychoanalytic subject. Psychoanalysis sutures myth to capitalism and subjectivity, heterosexuality to family and sociability. Psychoanalysis co-constructs homo – sexuality and madness, neither of which offer any escape from the psychoanalytic theatrical stage of capitalism. Rather, homosexuality and madness are co-constitutive of the neurotic, psychoanalytic pole of capitalism. As such, homosexuality and madness have their own traps: madness embodies the schizophrenic social movement in a state too extreme to be useful; homosexuality can operate within a circuit of production-consumption that is excessively closed.