Actually, to assert–as I do–that the lived-world of schizophrenic delusion is characterized by what might be called subjectivization may at first sound fairly consistent with these classic images.
The traditional assumption, however, is that schizophrenic patients project subjective meanings onto the objective world, not that they have at least an implicit awareness of these meanings as subjective.
Further, those who have attempted to understand or interpret schizophrenic delusions have nearly always understood the subjectivization in accordance with the psychoanalytic regression hypothesis, that is, as being a manifestation of a certain primitivization of consciousness: of regression to the id-dominated grandiosity and wish-fulfillment fantasizing of early infancy, or to immature forms of experience that precede development of a sense of self, of a capacity for self-critical metaawareness (consciousness of consciousness), or of the differentiation between subjective and objective, inner and outer.
And the position of radical anti-psychiatric writers—Norman O. Brown, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and R.D. Laing, for example—is surprisingly similar to the psychoanalytic one.
They too see psychosis as something childlike or Dionysian, though they then make the romantic move of valorizing rather than pathologizing these supposedly primitive and uncontrolled conditions.
The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind