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In the analysis of Dr Schreber, Freud makes the claim that hallucinations are a positive sign in the treatment of schizophrenic patients, for the reason that the hallucinations evidence the mind processing & working through whatever its underlying pathology may be. In properly systemic thinking, Freud's lessons come into play in a show such as this, where a systemic entity, a city, goes through the same convulsions of a mind, the underlying pathologies, the systems of the city, working themselves out via the bloody spectacle that takes up the runtime. In proper Cybernetic analysis, Lukuss is given to as a system, inhuman machines commanding and controlling the bodily understructure, the base of labor, humanity. The plot is broadly, these systems disintegrating to a terminal end by their mechanics being forced to act and thus terminate the very things which make their functioning. This top-down root of destruction is evident in the main antagonist, who brings about the final death in much the same way, attempting to construct a modernist outside-text, in the vein of a fascism or communism, to bring about some perfection of society. He fails and in doing so only causes more decline, sparking the destruction of the very system he sits atop, the class. The protagonist fades out watching colored lights from his arm, those of his mother, as his mother rests as a ghost, immortal in the "land of the dead", the literal overworld, superstructure.
Texhnolyze is an anime about death, about the failure of a corpus, a system, and its final decline until all that remains are the overground ghosts, living a half-existence forever, like the paintings and images live on when the body has been long destroyed by time. In proper fashion of melancholic media, much of the screentime is taken up with atmospherics, with the run-time greatly extended by beautiful ambient scenes intercut between the shots.
