Anti-Oedipus III, Lecture 3, 21 January 1974

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<p>With <em>Anti-Oedipus </em>published the previous year, this seminar clearly develops more consistently toward concepts in the different plateaus in <em>A Thousand Plateaus</em>, and corresponding to this academic year are several publications linked to this development: in late 1973, Deleuze and Guattari present another chapter, plateau 2 in <em>A Thousand Plateaus, </em>on Freud’s case of ‘The Wolf Man’, and several months later, they publish an essay on Kafka’s novel <em>The Castle,</em> developing a separate project that will result in <em>Kafka. Towards a Minor Literature.</em> Finally, with no available transcripts for academic year 1974-75, two more texts will be published during that missing year: material from another chapter which will become plateau 6 in <em>A Thousand Plateaus, </em>on the Body without Organs, and publication of <em>Kafka. Towards a Minor Literature</em> (1975).</p>

<p>In session 3, 21 January 1974, as only the first part of the complete session, Deleuze starts by indicating three main directions for research in relation to the seminar’s discussion to this point. The first concerns the plane of consistency, possibly in relation to the operation of desire. Deleuze then introduces a second direction, the fact that machinic assemblages – as transformations of affect — always put in question different units of levels and contents because affect is a becoming, an intensive passage, hence the movement of animal-becomings, molecular-becomings, and these becomings encompass movements of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. The third research direction is omitted from the WebDeleuze transcript, but as he continues, Deleuze seems to indicate a linkage with the exchange in psychoanalytic sessions, the replacement of affects by phantasms, a process that evolved from Freud through Melanie Klein. Deleuze then proposes to consider the genesis of affects, and then he considers the animal-becoming as a kind of compromise by raising the concept of the war machine and the warrior-animal. Considering this process in terms of a program, the intensive continuum of substances includes a threshold being crossed, migration as changes in intensities. However, the second way is to envisage the intensive continuum as constituted by three coordinates, no longer forms but substance. Here the session is interrupted, and its second part is unavailable.</p>

<p>No recording of this session is available currently. This dataset includes three files: a revised French transcription and new English translation in odt format, and the original French transcript from WebDeleuze. [WebDeleuze was founded by Richard Pinhas -- a student in Deleuze's seminars -- who, with the Deleuze family's support, developed transcripts and translations of many of the seminars including the Leibniz 1980 sessions.]</p>

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<p>Dans la séance 3, le 21 janvier 1974, qui n’est que la première partie de la séance complète, Deleuze commence par indiquer trois directions principales de recherche en relation avec la discussion du séminaire jusqu’à ce point. La première concerne le plan de consistance, peut-être en relation avec l’opération du désir. Deleuze introduit ensuite une deuxième direction, le fait que les agencements machiniques – en tant que transformations de l’affect – remettent toujours en question différentes unités de niveaux et de contenus parce que l’affect est un devenir, un passage intensif, d’où le mouvement des devenirs animaux, des devenirs moléculaires, et ces devenirs englobent des mouvements de déterritorialisation et de reterritorialisation. La troisième direction de recherche est omise dans la transcription de WebDeleuze, mais en continuant, Deleuze semble indiquer un lien avec l’échange dans les séances psychanalytiques, le remplacement des affects par des fantasmes, un processus qui a évolué de Freud à Melanie Klein. Deleuze propose alors de considérer la genèse des affects, puis il envisage le devenir-animal comme une sorte de compromis en évoquant le concept de machine de guerre et d'animal-guerrier. En considérant ce processus en termes de programme, le continuum intensif des substances comporte un seuil franchi, des migrations comme des changements d'intensités. Mais la deuxième voie est d'envisager le continuum intensif comme constitué de trois coordonnées, non plus des formes mais des substances. Ici la séance est interrompue, et sa deuxième partie est indisponible.</p>