DOI: 10.4231/ykvh-ps42
title: Anti-Oedipus I: Logic of Flows, Lecture 8, 7 March 1972

description: &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Deleuze Seminars&lt;/em&gt; is a collection of audio recordings, transcriptions, and English translations of, and supplemental materials from, the lectures French philosopher Gilles Deleuze gave during his career at the University of Paris 8.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;During his first year at Vincennes, where Deleuze began in fall 1970, he taught two seminars, back-to-back in the same three-hour weekly sessions, one titled &ldquo;Logic and Desire&rdquo;, the other titled &ldquo;Spinoza&rsquo;s Logic&rdquo; (with no documents on either currently available). Hence, the first transcripts available correspond to Deleuze&rsquo;s second year at Vincennes as he continues to expand the concepts developed for &lt;em&gt;Anti-Oedipus &lt;/em&gt;(published in March 1972) but also with the long view of the second volume, &lt;em&gt;A Thousand Plateaus&lt;/em&gt;, in progress with F&eacute;lix Guattari. Focusing on this forthcoming book, Deleuze with Guattari develop only one text for publication corresponding directly to the seminar, their first jointly published essay titled &ldquo;La synth&egrave;se disjonctive&rdquo;, in the journal &lt;em&gt;L&rsquo;Arc&lt;/em&gt; 43 (1970), an issued dedicated to Pierre Klossowski.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In session 8, 7 March 1972, Deleuze reviews points from the previous session, then presents the five differences between codes and axiomatics, arguing that under capitalism, a new regime of alliance emerges with filiation as the operation through which capital produces money as industrial capital and continues to expand its schizo-limit through two sorts of displacement. Deleuze considers different examples from ethnography (researched by Robert Jaulin and Victor Turner) and then, after an unrecorded discussion concerning the Pierre Overney affair, he shifts focus to the intersections of capitalist economics and psychoanalysis. He refers to the role played by Christianity and its trick of placing subjects under the regime of infinite interiorized debt, with a pole of the despotic formation and a pole with the regime of immanence under capitalism. He links these poles to the death drive in the successive social formations, and he concludes that with capitalism, death is decoded. The session is interrupted as Deleuze refers to Freud belief that the death drive is transcendent and silent. [Pierre Overney was a militant Maoist worker assassinated by a Renault security officer at the Regie Renault door in Boulogne-Billancourt on February 25, 1972. On March 4, 200,000 people marched with his coffin through Paris, carrying him on their shoulders. He was buried at Pere-Lachaise cemetery.]&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;No recording of this session is available currently. The original French transcript provided here, in Open Data Text (odt) format, is from the WeDeleuze site, also with the revised French transcription and new English translation in odt format. [WebDeleuze was founded by Richard Pinhas -- a student in Deleuze&#39;s seminars -- who, with the Deleuze family&#39;s support, developed transcripts and translations of many of the seminars.]&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Les S&eacute;minaires de Deleuze sont une collection d&#39;enregistrements audio, de transcriptions et de traductions en anglais et de documents compl&eacute;mentaires des conf&eacute;rences que le philosophe fran&ccedil;ais Gilles Deleuze a donn&eacute; lors de sa carri&egrave;re &agrave; l&#39;Universit&eacute; de Paris 8.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Dans cette s&eacute;ance 8, le 7 mars 1972, Deleuze consid&egrave;re en d&eacute;tail la fonction de l&rsquo;axiomatique en termes de d&eacute;veloppement scientifique et enrichit ainsi consid&eacute;rablement les aspects des troisi&egrave;me et quatri&egrave;me parties de &lt;em&gt;l&rsquo;Anti-Oedipus&lt;/em&gt; qui y sont moins d&eacute;velopp&eacute;s. Deleuze pr&eacute;sente les cinq diff&eacute;rences entre codes et axiomatiques, en affirmant que sous le capitalisme, un nouveau r&eacute;gime d&#39;alliance &eacute;merge avec la filiation comme op&eacute;ration par laquelle le capital produit de l&#39;argent en tant que capital industriel et continue d&#39;&eacute;tendre sa schizo-limite &agrave; travers deux types de d&eacute;placement.&lt;/p&gt;
description: Seminar with only 9 sessions available, given by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze at the Vincennes University, 1971-72. The eighth lecture available was presented on 7 March 1972.