Psychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression.
GILLES DELEUZEPsychoanalysts are bent on producing man abstractly, that is to say ideologically, for culture. It is Oedipus who produces man in this fashion and who gives a structure to the false movement of infinite progression and regression.
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Nietzsche’s break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple.
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My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
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Photography, if there is photography, is already snapped, already shot, in the very interior of things and for all points of space.
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A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
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It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality
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To affirm is not to bear, carry, or harness oneself to that which exists, but on the contrary to unburden, unharness, and set free that which lives.
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Either it is the fold of the infinite, or the constant folds [replis] of finitude which curve the outside and constitute the inside.
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A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
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Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality
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Images exist; things themselves are images… Images constantly act on and react to one another, produce and consume. There is no difference between images, things and movement.
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
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A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
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Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.
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Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.
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Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.
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It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity.
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Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think.
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A leftist government doesn’t exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.
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The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.
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There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons.
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
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belief is necessarily something false that diverts and suffocates effective production.
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You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
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In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.
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