The Psychoanalysis of Sense : Deleuze and the Lacanian School

Guillaume Collett questions to what extent we can locate Deleuze within the Lacanian School during the late-1960s, prior to Guattari. In so doing, he offers a new, integrated reading of Deleuze's The Logic of Sense (1969) by understanding it as a "psychoanalysis of sense", and gives a newinterpretation of Deleuze's conception of philosophy itself.The Psychoanalysis of Sense shows that Deleuze was not merely aware of the debates animating the Lacanian School during the 1960s: he sought to contribute to them. Emphasising his appropriation of the work of post-Lacanian Serge Leclaire, Collett shows how Deleuze constructed a more singular andimmanent theory of the linguistic structure of the unconscious - granting the erogenous body a larger structuring role.