Sentence:  One [metaphor] in particular – the "<WSD>arborescent</WSD> schema" – emerges as perhaps the most long-held, dominant approach and way of thinking in such areas as philosophy, psychoanalysis, social criticism, and everyday life. It is, in plain, a tree-like representation of the world, which gathers concepts and images that encourage our minds to think of the world in terms of trees and their component parts. ... Deleuze and Guattari draw attention to the <WSD>arborescent</WSD> schemas in philosophy and other areas and show how these foundational ideas are rarely challenged, even though they limit the manoeuvrability of thought and violently organize all subsequent lines of inquiry. ... The problem with <WSD>arborescent</WSD> thinking is that thoughts must begin from the trunk, and refer back to it; they cannot pop up elsewhere. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Marked by insistence on totalizing principles, binarism and dualism (as opposed to the rhizome theory).