Psychoanalysis and the writing of emancipation: a discussion between Deleuze and Joel Birman

Abstract

A debate is held between Deleuze's work and the psychoanalytical work of Birman. When the first one invents a ‘‘lesser language' within the hegemonic one, fissuring the felling, the watching, the thinking, Birman through the “feminine” and the “subject of difference”, creates a foreign psychoanalysis inside the current one. These elements both questions the phallocentric order which reduces the feminine and the erotic to the matter of motherhood, and faces the current dereliction and disenchantment: Without following the siren song of drugs, in the mere use of psychotropic substances or other sorts of pragmatisms, it considers a singular subject through the existential stylistics.