Appropriate Excerpts from my time in the little red schoolhouse.
I would like to explain
how I view what I have written. I belong to a generation, one of the last
generations, that was more or less assassinated with the history of philosophy. History of
philosophy has an obvious, repressive function in philosophy; it is philosophy's very own
Oedipus. "All the same you won't dare to speak in your own name as long as you have not
read this and that, and that on this, and this on that."
Nietzsche whom I read late was the one who pulled me out of all this. For it is impossible to submit
him to such a treatment. He gives you a perverse taste that neither Marx nor Freud have ever given
you: the desire for everyone to say simple things in his own name, to speak through affects,
intensities,experiences, experiments. To say something in one's own name is very strange, for it is
not at all when we consider ourselves as selves, persons, or subjects that we speak in our own
name. On the contrary, an individual acquires a true proper name as the result of the most severe
operations of depersonalization, when he opens himself to multiplicities that pervade him and to
intensities which run right through his whole being.
The depth of what I don't know, the deepness of my own underdevelopment is where I speak from
from.
The problem is not one of being this or that in man, but rather one of becoming human, of a
universal becoming animal: not to take oneself for a beast, but to undo the human organization of
the body, to cut across such and such a zone of intensity in the body, everyone of us discovering
the zones which are really his, and the groups, the populations, the species which inhabit him.
Why shouldn't I speak of medicine without being a doctor if I speak of it as a dog?
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should be overlap in interests.
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