The inverse side of the structure: Žižek on Deleuze on Lacan

Criticism

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 635-650

  Smith, Daniel W ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 67649547840     PISSN: 00111589     EISSN: 15360342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/crt.2005.0019     Document Type: Review

References (27)

1. Gilles Deleuze, Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty, trans. Jean McNeil (New York: Zone Books, 1989)
2. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane (1972; Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983)
3. "Le 'Je me souviens' de Gilles Deleuze" (interview by Didier Eribon) in Le Nouvel Observateur 1619 (16-22 November 1995), 50-51
4. Gilles Deleuze, Foucault, trans. Sean Hand (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1886), 42. Deleuze was speaking of Virilio's relation to Foucault
5. See Alain Badiou, Deleuze: The Clamor of Being, trans. Louise Burchill (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), 3-4
6. Gilles Deleuze, Logic of Sense, trans. Mark Lester and Charles Stivale; ed. Constantin V. Boundas (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), 124. See also p. 96: "How are we to reconcile these two contradictory aspects [of sense]? On one hand, we have impassibility in relation to states of affairs and neutrality in relation to propositions; on the other hand, we have the power of genesis in relation to propositions and in relation to states of affairs themselves."
7. Gilles Deleuze "Control and Becoming," interview with Antonio Negri, in Negotiations, 1972-1990, trans. Martin Joughin (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995), 170
8. Gilles Deleuze, Desert Islands and Other Texts, 1953-1974, ed. David Lapoujade, trans. Michael Taormina (New York: Semiotext(e), 2004), 261, in the discussion following "Nomad Thought."
9. Deleuze, "On Philosophy," in Negotiations, 144
10. Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987), 81
11. Deleuze, "Capitalism and Schizophrenia," in Desert Islands, 234
12. Eugene Holland's Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis (New York: Routledge, 1999) is an excellent analysis of Anti-Oedipus, though it treats Deleuze's links with Lacan only in passing (see, e.g., 89-91)
13. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, What is Philosophy? trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Graham Burchell (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), 47
14. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment, trans. James Creed Meredith (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952), Introduction, 3, footnote 1, 16
15. Jacques Lacan, "Kant avec Sade, in Écrits (Paris: Seuil, 1966), 765-90
16. For Deleuze's use of Lacan's reading of Sade, see his "Humor, Irony, and the Law," in Masochism, 81-90
17. Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 26-27. At one point, Deleuze and Guattari describe the project of Anti-Oedipus in explicitly Kantian terms: "In what he termed the critical revolution, Kant intended to discover criteria immanent to understanding so as to distinguish the legitimate and the illegitimate uses of the syntheses of consciousness. In the name of transcendental philosophy (immanence of criteria), he therefore denounced the transcendent use of the syntheses such as appeared in metaphysics. In a like fashion, we are compelled to say that psychoanalysis has its metaphysics - its name is Oedipus. And that a revolution - this time materialist - can proceed only by way of a critique of Oedipus, by denouncing the illegitimate use of the syntheses of the unconscious as found in Oedipal psychoanalysis, so as to rediscover a transcendental unconscious defined by the immanence of its criteria, and a corresponding practice that we shall call schizoanalysis" (75)
18. See Gilles Deleuze, "Louis Wolfson; or, The Procedure," in Essays Critical and Clinical, trans. Daniel W. Smith and Michael A. Greco (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), 7-22
19. See also Anti-Oedipus, 310: "Elisabeth Roudinesco has clearly seen that, in Lacan, the hypothesis of an unconscious-as-language does not closet the unconscious in a linguistic structure, but leads linguistics to the point of its autocritique, by showing how the structural organization of signifiers still depends on a despotic Great Signifier acting as an archaism."
20. Judith Butler, for instance, characterizes Deleuze and Guattari's conception of desire as "an originary unrepressed libidinal diversity subject to the prohibitive laws of culture," an ahistorical or "pre-cultural ideal" à la Rousseau or Montesquieu, a "natural eros which has subsequently been denied by a restrictive culture," arguing that Deleuze and Guattari promise "a liberation of that more original, bounteous desire." See Judith Butler, Subjects of Desire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999), 214-15, 206. Žižek, happily, does not fall into this trap
21. See Gilles Deleuze, "Desire and Pleasure," in Foucault and His Interlocutors, ed. Arnold I. Davidson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), 185-86
22. and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, trans. Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1981), 215
23. See Deleuze, "Desire and Pleasure," 186
24. See Deleuze, seminar of 21 December 1971. Transcripts of many of Deleuze seminars are available online at www.webdeleuze.com, thanks to the efforts of Richard Pinhas
25. Deleuze and Parnet, Dialogues, 119
26. Jacques Lacan, On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book 20, Encore, ed. Jacques-Alain Miller, trans. Bruce Fink (New York: Norton, 1999), 62. I would like to thank Emily Zakin for this reference
27. Lacan was speaking of Jean-Luc Nancy and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan [1973], trans. François Raffoul and David Pettigrew (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992)