The problem of perversion in deleuze : its development and consequence in the 1960s

ドゥルーズ ニ オケル トウサク ノ モンダイ : 1960ネンダイ ニ オケル ソノ テンカイ トキケツ

オグラ, タクヤ

Ogura, Takuya

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

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Gilles Deleuze intensively discusses “perversion” between the 1940s and 1960s. The concept of “perversion” has seemingly been replaced by that of “schizophrenia” since the 1970s, but in fact it has an irreducible importance and consistently shapes themes throughout his philosophy. In this paper, I analyze two transcendental attempts in Présentation de Sacher Masoch (1967), namely, sadism and masochism, and illuminate the latter as that which opens up the frontiers of the former which tries to go beyond any law and principle. By examining in detail the two notions of “disavowal” and “foreclosure”, with which Deleuze characterizes masochism, and by focusing on their problematic status in psychoanalysis, I will demonstrate that masochism is an attempt that runs counter to any principle of organization, by which even sadism is dismissed. Masochism is in this sense a kind of “this side-beyond.” Then, through a close reading of Logique du sens (1969), it will be revealed that this logic of masochist perversion derives a “body without organs” in such a way that it renounces altogether segmental and persecutory object relations.