Lacan and Deleuze: A Disjunctive Synthesis

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It is often said that Lacan is the most radical representative of structuralism, a thinker of negativity and alienation, whereas Deleuze is pictured as a great opponent of the structuralist project, a vitalist and a thinker of creative potentialities of desire. It seems the two cannot be further apart. This volume of 12 new essays, breaks the myth of their foreignness (if not hostility) and places the two in a productive conversation. By taking on topics such as baroque, perversion, death drive, ontology/topology, face, linguistics and formalism the essays highlight key entry points for a discussion between Lacan's and Deleuze's respective thoughts. The proposed lines of investigation do not argue for a simple equation of their thoughts, but for a 'disjunctive synthesis', which acknowledges their differences, while insisting on their positive and mutually informed reading. Lacan and Deleuze Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: On a Disjunctive Synthesis between Lacan and Deleuze 1 For Another Lacan–Deleuze Encounter 2 Reciprocal Portrait of Jacques Lacan in Gilles Deleuze 3 Does the Body without Organs Have Any Sex at All? Lacan and Deleuze on Perversion and Sexual Difference 4 Gnomonology: Deleuze’s Phobias and the Line of Flight between Speech and the Body 5 Lacan, Deleuze and the Politics of the Face 6 Denkwunderkeiten: On Deleuze, Schreber and Freud 7 Snark, Jabberwock, Poord’jeli: Deleuze and the Lacanian School on the Names-of-the-Father 8 Baroque Structuralism: Deleuze, Lacan and the Critique of Linguistics 9 Exalted Obscenity and the Lawyer of God: Lacan, Deleuze and the Baroque 10 The Death Drive 11 Repetition and Difference: Žižek, Deleuze and Lacanian Drives 12 Lacan, Deleuze and the Consequences of Formalism Notes on Contributors Index