Deleuze and Desire: Analysis of The Logic of SenseA close reading of Deleuze’s major text on desire The engagement of Deleuze with psychoanalysis has led to the development of a remarkable and highly influential theory about human desire. The most systematic account of this theory, crucial for anyone interested in the work of Deleuze and Guattari, can be found in the discussion of the dynamic genesis of sense, a pivotal part of Deleuze’s The Logic of Sense. In Deleuze and Desire Piotrek Świątkowski picks up the challenge to provide an ad literam commentary of this text. Świątkowski makes use of a broad range of examples, from psychoanalytic case studies to art, literature, and film, and analyses in an accessible and clear way the impact of the work of psychoanalysts such as Melanie Klein on Deleuze. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 9 |
Chapter 2 | 29 |
Chapter 3 | 57 |
Chapter 4 | 89 |
Pregenital sexuality relation towards structures | 110 |
Genital sexuality | 112 |
The Oedipus complex | 121 |
relationship to structures | 126 |
Conclusion | 173 |
Chapter 6 | 177 |
The phantasm and the body | 179 |
The quasicause and the ideational surface | 184 |
Psychoanalysis as science of events | 196 |
The phantasm and the ego in psychoanalysis | 200 |
Neutral energy and disjunctive synthesis | 206 |
Love and nationalism | 214 |
Conclusion | 128 |
Chapter 5 | 131 |
Oedipal desire and narcissism | 132 |
Castration complex | 138 |
Emergence of the metaphysical surface | 152 |
Metaphysical surface and the drives | 161 |
The crack in the metaphysical surface the dangers of the postcastration phase | 168 |
Chapter 7 | 219 |
Philosophical implications | 224 |
The Logic of Sense and the collaboration with Guattari | 228 |
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Common terms and phrases
According to Deleuze action actualised aggression allows analysis Anti-Oedipus autoeroticism autre bad partial objects Badiou become bien body without organs bon objet c’est castration complex chapter characterising child complete concept construction corps critique d’une Deleuze and Guattari Deleuze’s depressive position depths desexualised desire destructive drives deux dynamic genesis emergence environment événements example existence experience expression external objects fait fantasy father fear following passage Freud hauteur heights internal introjection l’autre l’enfant l’événement l’objet Lacan language Laplanche and Pontalis libido Logic of Sense Melanie Klein mère metaphysical surface mother n’est narcissism narcissistic nature nevertheless Oedipus Oedipus complex organisation paranoid-schizoid position pénis peut phallus phantasm philosophical physical surface pleasure problematic field profondeur proper psychoanalysis pulsions qu’elle qu’il quasi-cause realise refer relationship role sadism schizoid position schizophrenia self-preservation drive sexual position sexual-perverse position simulacrum structures of sense super-ego tension Thousand Plateaus topological dimension tout understanding