Theory & Event

Until now, many have wrongly considered Deleuze’s concepts of the unconscious and desire as human, and have postulated humanity as a-historically given. I show (1) the ontological nature of the unconscious and desire in Deleuze; and (2) the affinity between the thought of young Marx and that of Deleuze. In the last instance, Marxian socialist man is a Deleuzian schizophrenic and Marxian process of natural production is a Deleuzian schizophrenia. The non-human ground of humanity, or the historical materialist foundation of humanity, is the starting point of the new ethico-political philosophy.