There are no individual statements, there never
are. Every statement is
the product of a machinic assemblage, in other
words, of collective agents
of enunciation (take "collective agents" to mean
not peoples or societies
but multiplicities). The proper name (nom propre)
does not designate an
individual: it is on the contrary when the individual
does not designate an
individual: it is on the contrary when the individual
opens up to the multiplicities
pervading him or her, at the outcome of the most
pervading him or her, at the outcome of the most
severe operation
of depersonalization, that he or she acquires his or
her true proper name.
The proper name is the instantaneous apprehension
of a multiplicity. The
proper name is the subject of a pure infinitive
comprehended as such in a
field of intensity. What Proust said about the first
name: when I said
Gilberte's name, I had the impression that I was
holding her entire body
naked in my mouth. The Wolf-Man, a true proper
name, an intimate first
name linked to the becomings, infinitives, and
intensities of a multiplied
and depersonalized individual. What does
psychoanalysis know about
multiplication? The desert hour when the
dromedary becomes a thousand
dromedaries snickering in the sky. The evening
hour when a thousand
holes appear on the surface of the earth.
Castration! Castration! cries the
psychoanalytic scarecrow, who never saw more
than a hole, a father or a
dog where wolves are, a domesticated individual
where there are wild multiplicities.
....
The Wolf-Man keeps howling: Six
wolves! Seven wolves! Freud says, How's that?
Goats, you say? How interesting.
Take away the goats and all you have left is a wolf,
so it's your
father ... That is why the Wolf-Man feels so
fatigued: he's left lying there
with all his wolves in his throat, all those little holes
on his nose, and all
those libidi-nal values on his body without organs.
The war will come, the
wolves will become Bolsheviks, and the Wolf-Man
will remain suffocated
by all he had to say. All we will be told is that he
became well behaved,
polite, and resigned again, "honest and scrupulous."
In short, cured. He
gets back by pointing out that psychoanalysis lacks
a truly zoological
vision: "Nothing can be more valuable for a young
person than the love of
nature and a comprehension of the natural
sciences, in particular
zoology."
AtP 37-8
____ when Felix Guattari met Gilles Deleuze_________
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holding her entire body
naked in my mouth. The Wolf-Man, a true proper
name, an intimate first
name linked to the becomings, infinitives, and
intensities of a multiplied
and depersonalized individual. What does
psychoanalysis know about
multiplication? The desert hour when the
dromedary becomes a thousand
dromedaries snickering in the sky. The evening
hour when a thousand
holes appear on the surface of the earth.
Castration! Castration! cries the
psychoanalytic scarecrow, who never saw more
than a hole, a father or a
dog where wolves are, a domesticated individual
where there are wild multiplicities.
....
The Wolf-Man keeps howling: Six
wolves! Seven wolves! Freud says, How's that?
Goats, you say? How interesting.
Take away the goats and all you have left is a wolf,
so it's your
father ... That is why the Wolf-Man feels so
fatigued: he's left lying there
with all his wolves in his throat, all those little holes
on his nose, and all
those libidi-nal values on his body without organs.
The war will come, the
wolves will become Bolsheviks, and the Wolf-Man
will remain suffocated
by all he had to say. All we will be told is that he
became well behaved,
polite, and resigned again, "honest and scrupulous."
In short, cured. He
gets back by pointing out that psychoanalysis lacks
a truly zoological
vision: "Nothing can be more valuable for a young
person than the love of
nature and a comprehension of the natural
sciences, in particular
AtP 37-8
____ when Felix Guattari met Gilles Deleuze_________
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