D63: my starter is with differentiated planes. The way I would start to understand topically the problems, I would start with Deleuze’s epistemology and work backward into ontology. Its the very reversal I have been seeking, the beginning seems simple::let’s reverse ontology , choosing as the pont of departure the probable (multiplicity) and declare that the unity (at least 2 observers-sartre claims this is as solipsisitic as the 1). I am just laying down the ground rules,and not going into any judgment calls here) so it’s an de-i differentiation, 5iffering from an integration–since it has already been differentiated) how this measures up with repetition–can be later explored.
(Repetition was kierkegaard’s idea–was this borrowed? If so what is the significance for deleuze)$
If Oedipus is derivative, anti Oedipus is anti derivative–(de-differentiated).
Oedipus, maybe an asset to narcissism, is an anomalous structure combining context (perspective) bit displaced from the focus (or center of consciousness and projected as the other) as in the myth, of an aligned myth of narcissus, ((and seek a connection between oedipus and narcissus)
Narcissus as phenomenological ly de-differentiated as an anomalous cognitive structure of not being able to differentiate between the subject and the object.
The de-differentiation involves a cognitive/Phenomenological reduction into less complex levels of symbolic concepts, a sort of regression.
Here the lower levels of consciousness are as an “underworld” make their appearance.
At this level, the ideal shifts into the center as either inflated or deflated.
Take the example of a convex/concave visual apparatus, placed into a cognitively central position, where visual (self images) are anomalous with the concepts of the self. Here central magnification produce visual singular points or reference both to the singular (subjective point of view, and the one of manifold points. The connections are seen as increasingly complex toward the center, and increasingly simple from multiple points of view.
I think optical analogy is a good starting point, because on this level on consciousness it’s safe to say, the ideal structures can be at once constructed and de constructed, making way for the cognitive—structural pre suppositions to be built, (as in the development of differentiation of the figurative from the cognitive. The cognitive is effected by some kind of surplus value (a marx ian term) which de constructed will become the symbol for the surplus.
In capitalism, too (the literal representation of surplus value) some kind or de-differentiation into an anomalies of the body, and the organs–as I understand this dissection.
So these are some of the dis sections (above) that this way of thinking can be approached.
Modern views of schizophrenia distinguish a schizoid, continuum, where types are determined, rather then the other way around, and the continuum seems to be related to functional determinants, so the older “atypical” categorical interpretation, of categorical classifications have outlived their usefulness. Why? Because of advances in pharmacology, of de constructing the myth of strict causality (freud) and of course the search into the lowest type of consciousness (Archetypes)
It is useful, to propose an epistomologically naïve thesis , as a starting point, because this is what anti determinism requires, a wiping of the sleigh! Not by erasing everything, but taking an essentially built up construct and reversing it, not linearly (freud) but de constructing it pehomenologically,b using the baggage that it has come to add, and using that, to arrive at the origin of the transcendental ideal. I believe deleuze spell that out in the beginning of his ontology.
So let’s start with self image as the displacement of self concept, (that becoming a referentially preconceived, a privileged position through which, the role and function of the Object become fetishized, cut off). The re assemblage of these parts, become the existential project.
I do not wish to say that these are either original re creations, or aphoristic disassembliges, but perhaps, repetitious processes of both. (I believe he wrote sense and nonsense, and I use that as also a very general defensive way of basing this as redundantly as possible, since ultimately entropy is a de construction of redundant ways of communication.)