Linguistique de l’écrit

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The tantric egg

Franco Berardi

pp. 109-112

Résumé

The body without organs is an egg: it is crisscrossed with axes and thresholds, with latitudes and longitudes and geodesic lines, traversed by gradients marking the transitions and becomings, the destinations of the subject developing along these particular vectors. Nothing here is representative; rather, it is all life and lived experience: the actual, lived emotion of having breasts does not resemble breasts, it does not represent them, any more than a predestined zone in the egg resembles the organ that it is going to be stimulated to produce within itself. Nothing but bands of intensity, potentials, thresholds, and gradients. A harrowing, emotionally overwhelming experience, which brings the schizo as close as possible to matter, to a burning, living center of matter. (Anti-Oedipus, 19, emphasis in the original)

Détails de la publication

Publié dans:

Berardi Franco, Mecchia Giuseppina, Stivale Charles J (2008) Félix Guattari: thought, friendship and visionary cartography. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 109-112

DOI: 10.1057/9780230584488_10

Citation complète:

Berardi Franco, 2008, The tantric egg. In F. Berardi, G. Mecchia & C.J. Stivale Félix Guattari (109-112). Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.