Miguel de Beistegui
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748638307
- eISBN:
- 9780748671816
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638307.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This chapter addresses some of the practical consequences of Baruch Spinoza's ontology for the existence of modes. It then demonstrates the extent to which Gilles Deleuze's thought after ...
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This chapter addresses some of the practical consequences of Baruch Spinoza's ontology for the existence of modes. It then demonstrates the extent to which Gilles Deleuze's thought after Expressionism in Philosophy remains indebted to Spinoza. Spinoza rejects entirely the theological idea of the perfection of the original man, and he does so on natural grounds. The problem of ethics and of life is described. Deleuze and Félix Guattari posit that the link between syntheses is not dialectical. They do not defend economy and ethics: desire is entirely economical and social, entirely productive of its object, entirely immanent. Schizoanalysis designates a way out of psychoanalysis, and schizophrenia a way out of neurosis and hysteria. It is not a matter of adopting schizophrenia as a model to be imitated, but as a process in which desire is visible and produced in its raw, free state.Less
This chapter addresses some of the practical consequences of Baruch Spinoza's ontology for the existence of modes. It then demonstrates the extent to which Gilles Deleuze's thought after Expressionism in Philosophy remains indebted to Spinoza. Spinoza rejects entirely the theological idea of the perfection of the original man, and he does so on natural grounds. The problem of ethics and of life is described. Deleuze and Félix Guattari posit that the link between syntheses is not dialectical. They do not defend economy and ethics: desire is entirely economical and social, entirely productive of its object, entirely immanent. Schizoanalysis designates a way out of psychoanalysis, and schizophrenia a way out of neurosis and hysteria. It is not a matter of adopting schizophrenia as a model to be imitated, but as a process in which desire is visible and produced in its raw, free state.
Clayton Crockett
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823227211
- eISBN:
- 9780823235308
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823227211.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
This chapter discusses theology and schizophrenia as represented in the image of the black sun, which includes a reading of Freud's case study of Judge Schreber along with insights from R. D. Laing, ...
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This chapter discusses theology and schizophrenia as represented in the image of the black sun, which includes a reading of Freud's case study of Judge Schreber along with insights from R. D. Laing, Gilles Deleuze, and Jacques Derrida. Schizophrenia becomes a problem that requires a broadly theological schizoanalysis, rather than simply a medical condition.Less
This chapter discusses theology and schizophrenia as represented in the image of the black sun, which includes a reading of Freud's case study of Judge Schreber along with insights from R. D. Laing, Gilles Deleuze, and Jacques Derrida. Schizophrenia becomes a problem that requires a broadly theological schizoanalysis, rather than simply a medical condition.
Eugene W. Holland
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748623419
- eISBN:
- 9780748652389
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748623419.003.0009
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter examines Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of desire as it figures in schizoanalysis, and addresses the issues of affective citizenship and Death-State. It explores how ...
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This chapter examines Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of desire as it figures in schizoanalysis, and addresses the issues of affective citizenship and Death-State. It explores how economic and familial determinations in a modern capitalist society reinforce one another and state politics along with it, and argues that the sovereign state is long gone, and that what prevails in its place is the biopower state. The chapter explains that the biopower state represses death in order fully to exploit the production of surplus, which capital in turn appropriates in order to generate more capital, and shows the connection between the Death-State and the current war on terrorism.Less
This chapter examines Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of desire as it figures in schizoanalysis, and addresses the issues of affective citizenship and Death-State. It explores how economic and familial determinations in a modern capitalist society reinforce one another and state politics along with it, and argues that the sovereign state is long gone, and that what prevails in its place is the biopower state. The chapter explains that the biopower state represses death in order fully to exploit the production of surplus, which capital in turn appropriates in order to generate more capital, and shows the connection between the Death-State and the current war on terrorism.
Anna Powell
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748617470
- eISBN:
- 9780748651061
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748617470.003.0002
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter discusses the established status of psychoanalysis in horror film studies. Gilles Deleuze offers a method and a language to open up the film event to exploration, analysis and ...
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This chapter discusses the established status of psychoanalysis in horror film studies. Gilles Deleuze offers a method and a language to open up the film event to exploration, analysis and articulation. The innovation of schizoanalysis leads to a radical re-thinking of both the theme of madness and the spectator's disturbed responses to the horror film. Insanity is a traditional theme of horror, with its psychopaths and victims driven insane by terror. Normative modes of consciousness and behaviour are assumed, into which madness erupts. Pathologising anomalous mental states is refused by Deleuze and Félix Guattari, whose use of schizoanalysis privileges the transitions accessible in certain intensive states, and in the material aesthetic of immanence. The chapter presents psychoanalytic readings of five horror films – Psycho, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Repulsion and The Shining – and also examines intensive states in Natural Born Killers.Less
This chapter discusses the established status of psychoanalysis in horror film studies. Gilles Deleuze offers a method and a language to open up the film event to exploration, analysis and articulation. The innovation of schizoanalysis leads to a radical re-thinking of both the theme of madness and the spectator's disturbed responses to the horror film. Insanity is a traditional theme of horror, with its psychopaths and victims driven insane by terror. Normative modes of consciousness and behaviour are assumed, into which madness erupts. Pathologising anomalous mental states is refused by Deleuze and Félix Guattari, whose use of schizoanalysis privileges the transitions accessible in certain intensive states, and in the material aesthetic of immanence. The chapter presents psychoanalytic readings of five horror films – Psycho, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Repulsion and The Shining – and also examines intensive states in Natural Born Killers.
Anna Powell
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748617470
- eISBN:
- 9780748651061
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748617470.003.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Horror film fandom revels in the genre's special effects, but a corresponding theoretical exploration of horror aesthetics is scarce. The genre has showcased a strongly affective style from its ...
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Horror film fandom revels in the genre's special effects, but a corresponding theoretical exploration of horror aesthetics is scarce. The genre has showcased a strongly affective style from its outset. Excessive forms of cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing and sound are the pivotal tools of horror, used to arouse visceral sensations and to ‘horrify’ the viewer. The psychophysiology of cinematic experience and the ways in which vision and sound directly stimulate the nervous system are still under-researched. We can, however, usefully deploy Gilles Deleuze's philosophical speculations on the affective phenomena of mise-en-scène and movement. Deleuze's work does not focus on the genre of horror per se, but on some popular or sensationalist horror films. This book deals with the relationship of horror film and Deleuzian theory, focusing on the themes of madness and monstrous transformations, discussed via schizoanalysis and becoming, and horror film aesthetics, and also explores the value of Deleuzian work for horror film studies and suggests its future potential.Less
Horror film fandom revels in the genre's special effects, but a corresponding theoretical exploration of horror aesthetics is scarce. The genre has showcased a strongly affective style from its outset. Excessive forms of cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing and sound are the pivotal tools of horror, used to arouse visceral sensations and to ‘horrify’ the viewer. The psychophysiology of cinematic experience and the ways in which vision and sound directly stimulate the nervous system are still under-researched. We can, however, usefully deploy Gilles Deleuze's philosophical speculations on the affective phenomena of mise-en-scène and movement. Deleuze's work does not focus on the genre of horror per se, but on some popular or sensationalist horror films. This book deals with the relationship of horror film and Deleuzian theory, focusing on the themes of madness and monstrous transformations, discussed via schizoanalysis and becoming, and horror film aesthetics, and also explores the value of Deleuzian work for horror film studies and suggests its future potential.
Anna Powell
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748632824
- eISBN:
- 9780748651139
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748632824.003.0002
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter considers dreams as the most familiar cinematic altered state and criticises psychoanalytical dream-work through Deleuze-Guattarian schizoanalysis. It explains why Gilles Deleuze and ...
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This chapter considers dreams as the most familiar cinematic altered state and criticises psychoanalytical dream-work through Deleuze-Guattarian schizoanalysis. It explains why Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari refuted psychoanalytic dream-work as a critical technique and why Deleuze prefers a Bergsonian approach to film dreams. The chapter provides a critical analysis of several relevant films including Alfred Hitchcock's 1945 Spellbound, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1951 The Tales of Hoffmann and David Lynch's 2001 Mulholland Drive.Less
This chapter considers dreams as the most familiar cinematic altered state and criticises psychoanalytical dream-work through Deleuze-Guattarian schizoanalysis. It explains why Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari refuted psychoanalytic dream-work as a critical technique and why Deleuze prefers a Bergsonian approach to film dreams. The chapter provides a critical analysis of several relevant films including Alfred Hitchcock's 1945 Spellbound, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1951 The Tales of Hoffmann and David Lynch's 2001 Mulholland Drive.
Dafydd Jones
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781781380208
- eISBN:
- 9781781381526
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781380208.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Dada formed in 1916 in a world of rational appearances that belied a raging confusion – in the middle of the First World War, in the neutral centre of a warring continent, at the core of Western art. ...
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Dada formed in 1916 in a world of rational appearances that belied a raging confusion – in the middle of the First World War, in the neutral centre of a warring continent, at the core of Western art. This book sets out new coordinates in revision of a formation that art history routinely exhausts by its characterisation as a ‘revolutionary movement’ of anarchic cultural dissent, in order to contest perpetuated assumptions that underlie the popular myths of Dada. Dada is difficult, and the response to Dada is not easy. What emerge from the theoretical readings developed here are profoundly rational bases for the non-sense that was pitted against a self-proclaimed civilisation, critically and implicitly to propose that what coursed in 1916 continues as vitally today. Given as art-historically identifiable along a trajectory of sustained ruptures and seizures, this book proposes not a history of Dada in Zurich but theoretical engagements with the emergencies of 1916–19, from laughter to ‘lautgedichte’, masks to manifestos, chance to chiasmata, rounding on the permanent Dada that drives against the closure of culture.Less
Dada formed in 1916 in a world of rational appearances that belied a raging confusion – in the middle of the First World War, in the neutral centre of a warring continent, at the core of Western art. This book sets out new coordinates in revision of a formation that art history routinely exhausts by its characterisation as a ‘revolutionary movement’ of anarchic cultural dissent, in order to contest perpetuated assumptions that underlie the popular myths of Dada. Dada is difficult, and the response to Dada is not easy. What emerge from the theoretical readings developed here are profoundly rational bases for the non-sense that was pitted against a self-proclaimed civilisation, critically and implicitly to propose that what coursed in 1916 continues as vitally today. Given as art-historically identifiable along a trajectory of sustained ruptures and seizures, this book proposes not a history of Dada in Zurich but theoretical engagements with the emergencies of 1916–19, from laughter to ‘lautgedichte’, masks to manifestos, chance to chiasmata, rounding on the permanent Dada that drives against the closure of culture.
Christian Gilliam
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474417884
- eISBN:
- 9781474435178
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474417884.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
Deleuze combines the essential elements of the three previous thinkers to make an improved politics of immanence, which is to a certain extent more perspicuous, by virtue of being consistent and ...
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Deleuze combines the essential elements of the three previous thinkers to make an improved politics of immanence, which is to a certain extent more perspicuous, by virtue of being consistent and systematic, specifically with its penetrating account of interiority. Certainly, Deleuze overcomes a number of remaining ambiguities, in particular through addressing an affective and ethical issue evident in Foucault – by turning to schizoanalysis and the incorporation of desire as will to power – pushing the politics of immanence to its ultimate. This argument contends with the misleading but no less prominent view that Deleuzian desire is a pre-symbolic libidinal flux, an asocial essentialist category of idealism and bourgeois ethics. It is argued that Deleuzian desire is both instigated by and utilises the ontogenetic conceptual schema of Deleuze’s metaphysics (transcendental empiricism) – as derived from an engagement with Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Foucualt – in which thought and desire are construed as immanent to the real that provokes them, such that they can only have a productive nature.Less
Deleuze combines the essential elements of the three previous thinkers to make an improved politics of immanence, which is to a certain extent more perspicuous, by virtue of being consistent and systematic, specifically with its penetrating account of interiority. Certainly, Deleuze overcomes a number of remaining ambiguities, in particular through addressing an affective and ethical issue evident in Foucault – by turning to schizoanalysis and the incorporation of desire as will to power – pushing the politics of immanence to its ultimate. This argument contends with the misleading but no less prominent view that Deleuzian desire is a pre-symbolic libidinal flux, an asocial essentialist category of idealism and bourgeois ethics. It is argued that Deleuzian desire is both instigated by and utilises the ontogenetic conceptual schema of Deleuze’s metaphysics (transcendental empiricism) – as derived from an engagement with Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Foucualt – in which thought and desire are construed as immanent to the real that provokes them, such that they can only have a productive nature.
Nadine Boljkovac
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780748646449
- eISBN:
- 9780748689248
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748646449.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
‘Art’s resistance’ argues that Deleuze and Guattari’s ethical and affirmative method of schizoanalysis can counter death with life and art as it discovers possibilities for survival and creation ...
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‘Art’s resistance’ argues that Deleuze and Guattari’s ethical and affirmative method of schizoanalysis can counter death with life and art as it discovers possibilities for survival and creation beyond theories of victimization. Deleuze insists that thought and art must do violence to reactive forces that beget violence through a power of ressentiment, what Deleuze and Guattari describe as ‘double suicide’ and ‘a way out that turns the line of flight into a line of death’, a line of pure destruction and abolition. The concept of the untimely, or that which is ever-new, is introduced as an experiential, sensory force through Nietzsche. This chapter further explains this force as an ‘eternal repetition of the different’ that recreates and re-experiences the past while simultaneously transforming the future to suggest a doubling of ‘virtual-actual’ worlds.Less
‘Art’s resistance’ argues that Deleuze and Guattari’s ethical and affirmative method of schizoanalysis can counter death with life and art as it discovers possibilities for survival and creation beyond theories of victimization. Deleuze insists that thought and art must do violence to reactive forces that beget violence through a power of ressentiment, what Deleuze and Guattari describe as ‘double suicide’ and ‘a way out that turns the line of flight into a line of death’, a line of pure destruction and abolition. The concept of the untimely, or that which is ever-new, is introduced as an experiential, sensory force through Nietzsche. This chapter further explains this force as an ‘eternal repetition of the different’ that recreates and re-experiences the past while simultaneously transforming the future to suggest a doubling of ‘virtual-actual’ worlds.
Laurence A. Rickels
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474422734
- eISBN:
- 9781474434959
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474422734.003.0012
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
This chapter focuses on the unmournable nature of animal death, turning to Heidegger, Freud and Melanie Klein (as advocates of both successful and unsuccessful mourning, first and second deaths) as ...
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This chapter focuses on the unmournable nature of animal death, turning to Heidegger, Freud and Melanie Klein (as advocates of both successful and unsuccessful mourning, first and second deaths) as entry points for an analysis of Emilie Deleuze’s 2003 film, Mister V. The film tracks the changes in relationality incurred when the eponymous psychotic horse escapes and tests not only the boundaries of the film’s diegesis but also its own discursive fabulation. Here man, as majority figure, is not an option for becoming. Man must be divested of his majoritarian status before he can become other. In this regard, ‘becoming-animal’ is the missing link between man and ‘becoming multiple’, so that the metamorphosis necessarily entails a ‘loss’ as initiation so that we can enter the substitutive order of becoming-other. This is not necessarily incompatible with Freud. Indeed, the two main trajectories of the latter’s thought: 1) totemic identification and 2) castration (as an initiation into the ‘management’ of loss or lack) also separate out as tendencies of unmourning and ‘successful mourning’, of first and second deaths, respectively. Both are compatible with the anti-Oedipal momentum of Deleuze and Guattari’s schizoanalysis.Less
This chapter focuses on the unmournable nature of animal death, turning to Heidegger, Freud and Melanie Klein (as advocates of both successful and unsuccessful mourning, first and second deaths) as entry points for an analysis of Emilie Deleuze’s 2003 film, Mister V. The film tracks the changes in relationality incurred when the eponymous psychotic horse escapes and tests not only the boundaries of the film’s diegesis but also its own discursive fabulation. Here man, as majority figure, is not an option for becoming. Man must be divested of his majoritarian status before he can become other. In this regard, ‘becoming-animal’ is the missing link between man and ‘becoming multiple’, so that the metamorphosis necessarily entails a ‘loss’ as initiation so that we can enter the substitutive order of becoming-other. This is not necessarily incompatible with Freud. Indeed, the two main trajectories of the latter’s thought: 1) totemic identification and 2) castration (as an initiation into the ‘management’ of loss or lack) also separate out as tendencies of unmourning and ‘successful mourning’, of first and second deaths, respectively. Both are compatible with the anti-Oedipal momentum of Deleuze and Guattari’s schizoanalysis.
