PGIVORD

Hello Deconstruction bloggers,

There is a lot of seeds in your postings and it makes me want to ask the question: is science-fiction, especially the holistic, shifting-realities of Philip K. Dick,  - and the Cyberpunk litterature which deals with industrial waste, electronic transient media invading our DNA, technology behaving like a multiple cancer tumor gone beyond control, fragfmented shared perceptions and in-and-out of the matrix experiences - a deconstruction process of our complex world trough storytelling
and analogy? Is a shortcoming future our present's metaphor where we project the reader into an psychoanalytically acceptable version of the real world? Gender, Ethics, Technology put into theatrical situations that let us feel unconcerned directly?
Please push into theanti-social repression and anti-imperialism of oedipus theme, find an example maybe?
see you in class! PG
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Anti-Oedipus & Deconstruction

Chapter 2 Summary: Psychoanalysis and Familialism: The Holy Family

Imperialism of Oedipus:
Psychoanalysis suggests that everything refers back to an Oedipal standard. It totalizes field by reference to a single standard, then introduces the "three fold": pre-Oedipus, group Oedipus (extended family explains psychosis) and structural Oedipus (Lacan)
The imperialistic tendancies of oedipus allow for a distinction between imagination and symbolism, and allows Oedipus to become a reference axis beyond Freudian thought.

The family of the social field:
The family is seperate completely from the influence of the social field, yet it is a microcosm of relationships and interdependancies found within social fields. Oedipus acting both as the bond, catalyst and the seperatin factor in the comparative relationships.

Social Repression and psychic repression:
The real forces of the Oedipal relationship, according to Deleuze and Guattari lies in social repression. There are two apparent problems with previous thought, the specific relation of psychic and social repression, the prior use of Oedipus in this system, and a link if psychic repression worked on [real] incestuous desire. This would assume it would be condition of society, where "social repression" deals only with return of this repression in society.

This chapter has evolved in both Deluze's and Guattari's theory on the relationship of the family and society. The text is significantly more abstract with less application to living examples, and therefore very difficult to grasp as a coherent concept. The only evidence that i have found in this chapter regarding deconstruction is the example of the family in relation to oedipus, in relation to the social field. (exclusively bonded by the Oedipalization of different groups)


Interesting link explaingin the links between these authors (Delueze) to Derridaean theory and deconstruction:
http://www.philosophers.co.uk/cafe/phil_nov2003.htm

Anti-Oedipus & Deconstruction

Chapter Summary (Overview of Key ideas)

1) Desiring Machines
-Partial Objects and Flows:
desire must first be understood as a key element of the subconscious. This assumption allows 'desire' to be introduced into the mechanism and introduce production into desire. (desire being the key element in producing reality) the desiring machine is at the heart of the production. It has been described as partial machines, connecting, breaking and flowing between all others, yet always being a fragmented piece, never a whole.

-anti-production
In reference to Capitalism, anti production is the primary attractor for desire, whereas past belief has focused clearly on the element of production.

-The Body Without Organs
The Body without Organs is the limit where all the flows which constitute the world flow completely freely, so that no distinctions exist among them any longer. The desiring machines constitute a world in which everything flows. water, air, magma, blood, paint, electricity, not only grass, earth, sun, but ideas, people, culture, books, conversations flow. Every flow is made by cutting off another flow. (machine)
This desire, the desire of a flow to flow unconstrained, is described as "the body without organs". The body without organs is real, since the desire is real, in fact, the body without organs just is desire. flows are never free, but always interrupted. Without the interruption and the desire, the flow and its break, there would be no world at all.
<http://webpages.ursinus.edu/rrichter/bwodefinition.html>

-Passive Synthesis
"Passive synthesis" is Edmund Husserl's descriptive phrase for the epistemological mortar that comprehensively binds experience such that it is conceptually coherent: "As long as we constantly have sheer experience as our basis... we are constantly guided by that passive synthesis in which precisely the multiplicity of experience yields a unity of an experiential object as something consistently existing."
<http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/archive/00000413/>

Placed within a deconstruction context, these ideas presented within Anti-Oedipus explore and question preconceived undesterstandings and assumptionsa made mostly within Psychoanalysis and the role between human and society.

Hello,

Welcome to the Think Tank Convergence GDES 3A01 section 17 blog:
"Deconstruction > the reception of deconstructivism, Deleuze’s theory, Derrida" "
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See you soon!
best,
Priam GIVORD