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Breaking Down

        In the context of a connective synthesis, a machine or a chain of associations works only when it breaks down. It works by breaking down, continually, by having the flow it produces interrupted...

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Falling Back Onto

        Before preceding any further, another note on the translation is in order.         Most critical and most misleading in the English rendering is the translation of “se rabattre sur” as “to fall...

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Subjects-2

        In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the psychoanalysis with which Deleuze and Guattari were most suffused, jouissance has come to hold pride of place amongst the categories and constructs. Jouissance...

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Ich/I/moi

        Back to the question of translation though this time the text is encumbered by a move from the German original. Freud’s Oedipal trinity is of the “es/it,” the “Ich/I,” and the...

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