Deleuze and Guattari (Critics of the Twentieth Century)

Deleuze and Guattari (Critics of the Twentieth Century)

Ronald Bogue

Language: English

Pages: 224

ISBN: 0415024439

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First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the necessity of the outcome. The traditional problem of chance and necessity is dissolved, for the problem only arises through the negative desires of controlling chance or escaping necessity. The affirmation of chance makes possible an amor fati, Nietzsche’s ‘formula for greatness in a human being’,17 an active love of fate that forces one to will whatever happens as the necessary manifestation of chance. The will to power also has a specific relationship to the eternal return: ‘the eternal

thought in Sade and imagination in Masoch, however, Deleuze finds a more fundamental force at work – that of repetition. He claims that the accelerated reiteration of scenes of violence in Sade and the frozen progression of torture tableaus in Masoch must be interpreted through the Freudian concepts of repetition, Eros and Thanatos, developed in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920). Deleuze argues that Beyond the Pleasure Principle is Freud’s most philosophical work, for it is essentially a

destruction. Masoch’s ideal is a disavowal of the real, a nature that is cold, sentimental and cruel. He eroticizes the imagination and aspires to a mystical union with the ideal by suspending the real and bringing the ideal within an intermediate realm of fantasy. Both Sade and Masoch transcend the personal language of pornography through an impersonal, idealizing use of language, demonstrative on the one hand, dialectical and persuasive on the other. In psychological terms, they are also

remain available only in French. When citing translations, I have included the page numbers of both the English version and the corresponding passage in the French edition, the latter in italics. (Translations of Kafka, Dialogues and Mille plateaux only became available after I had finished my manuscript and hence have not been cited.) By Gilles Deleuze NP PS M DR LS D FB EN S Nietzsche and Philosophy, tr. Hugh Tomlinson, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983. Nietzsche et la

and Marx, and he had begun to formulate a theory of the social and political unconscious in non-Lacanian terms. He and Deleuze together developed that theory and a complementary critique of psychoanalysis, which they presented in Anti-Oedipus. The popularity of Anti-Oedipus secured Deleuze and Guattari a certain renown, but one with unfortunate side effects. They became symbols of antipsychiatry and the spirit of May, and as a result the broader concerns that informed Anti-Oedipus were often

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