THE LIBIDINAL UNCONSCIOUS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY: sexuality and politics in Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus
The central objective of this article is to elucidate the intrinsic relationship between sexuality and politics in Deleuze and Guattari's 'Anti-Oedipus' by defining sexuality as the libidinal unconscious of political economy. According to the authors, there is no difference in nature...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade de Brasília (UnB) |
| Repositorio: | Pólemos (Brasília) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/48601 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/polemos/article/view/48601 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Deleuze. Guattari. Anti-Édipo. Sexualidade. Inconsciente. Deleuze. Guattari. Anti-Œdipe. Sexualité. Inconscient. Deleuze. Guattari. Anti-Oedipus. Sexuality. Unconscious. |
| Sumario: | The central objective of this article is to elucidate the intrinsic relationship between sexuality and politics in Deleuze and Guattari's 'Anti-Oedipus' by defining sexuality as the libidinal unconscious of political economy. According to the authors, there is no difference in nature between desiring production and social production; thus, sexuality, as the production of desire, is coextensive with the social field. However, there exists a difference in regime that allows social production to subject desiring production to the forms of its reproduction. Therefore, sexuality is defined as desiring machines actively operating at the unconscious level within social machines. In this sense, sexuality does not separate from politics, as it constitutes its unconscious 'face.' With this in mind, we propose to explore the role of this concept in what the authors term the 'fundamental problem of political philosophy.' |
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