Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 15:45:28 -0400
From: rowalsh2-AT-vt.edu (Robert Walsh)
Subject: Re: Anti-Oedipus, inter alia


I have been lurking for a while and have found some of the discussions here
enlioghtening and of great interest to my own resesarch, however I found
this latest discussion somewhat worrisome.

>Andrew wrote:
>
>>Another aspect of my lack of comprehension is why D&G would posit an
>>unconscious as a system, when they evidently question most other structures
Andrew, I am concerned that you may be interchanging terms here which in
the context of D+G are distinctly different.  Are you suggesting that D+G
are supporting a 'structure' based on an unconscious system of desire?  If
so I believe that you are greatly missing the point, at least as I read it.
I find the most interesting distinction in D+G to be that between
system/flow and structure.  They suggest that flows attack and break down
these structures and that the BwO as the epitome of the flow of desires is
fully resistant to the reterritorialization and structuring which is
inherent in capitalism.

In other words I read D+G's discussion of system of the unconscious as the
flows which capitalism and its structures fear and are constsantly
atttempting to corral.  They are adamently against the structure which
conventional psycoanalysis attempts to place on the Unconscious.  They deny
the triad of daddy, mommy, me, and in doing so discuss the unconscious not
as system/structure but as system/flows.




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