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Book SynopsisIn 1950s and 60s Gilles Deleuze turned to Henri Bergson's theories of memory and instinct and to Carl Jung's theory of archetypes. In "Difference and Repetition (1968)" he conceived of a 'differential unconscious' based on Leibnizian principles. This book shows how these tendencies combine in Deleuze's work to engender an approach to unconscious.
Trade Review-Mention. The Chronicle of Higher Education/ July 13, 2007
"This book, beyond being a superior work of scholarship, reveals an entire network of decisive investments and influences, scarcely grasped before, which underpin the entire course of Deleuze's philosophy. Kerslake's book is a landmark in English-language Deleuze scholarship, whose merits are many, and which thoroughly deserves to be widely read and discussed...The greatest promise of Kerslake's exceptional book is that Deleuze's philosophy will be turned to in all its richness and paradox. Without a doubt, there have been some very fine contributions to English-speaking Deleuze scholarship, but Kerslake has set a new high watermark." -Jonathan Roffe, Philosophy in Review
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1: Memory and the Unconscious; Chapter 2: Deleuze's Early Jungianism; Chapter 3: Deleuze and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis; Chapter 4: The Pathologies of Repetition; Chapter 5: Language and the Unconscious in Deleuze and Lacan; Chapter 6: Anti-Oedipus and Beyond; Conclusion.
