A PROBLEMÁTICA DO DESEJO/PODER EM GILLES DELEUZE E MICHEL FOUCAULT

Abstract

This paper aims at elaborating the elements of both the deleuzo-guattarian schizoanalysis and foucauldian microanalysis that created the famous theoretical dispute between the former friends Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Michel Foucault (1926-1984). In this sense, we are going to set the hypothesis that the reason for the later rupture between those philosophers goes beyond mere affective indisposition towards one another and is dependent upon their shared problematic field: how should one conceive the system of social organization from its differential standpoint? This rupture was firstly exposed by Foucault in 1976 with his History of sexuality 1, but was later recognized by Deleuze in a 1977 letter addressed to his (at the time) friend, becoming fully acknowledged in 1981 with the release of A thousand plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia 2, when Deleuze and Guattari dedicated an entire note solely to refute foulcadian analysis. In order to find a solution to that problem, we defend that both authors proposed mutually exclusive and incompatible solutions: there is an antinomic unity formed by what we call the schyzoanalitic principle of desire and the foucauldian principle of power. Having said so, our paper intends to point out a possible solution to this antinomy by analysing the critical fortune and its positions regarding that dispute that torns apart the commentators pro-Deleuze and those pro-Foucault, making a daring bet on the included middle of that dichotomy: the lacano-deleuzian monster.

Keywords: antinomy; esquizoanalysis; microanalysis; desire and power; Deleuze and Foucault.