Phil 3P97 Take Home Test 3: Deleuze and Guattari Anti-Oedipus
Desire has a complicated history to philosophy; for most of philosophy's history they were viewed as fundamentally opposed. Since Plato, philosophy has viewed desire as base and something to be controlled by reason. By emphasizing reason over base desires, philosophy encouraged a pervasive self-denial identified by Nietzsche as the ascetic ideal. The core of this ideology was based on the notion that beliefs should be based upon reason, that these base desires interfered with pure reason, and that these base desires were therefore evil. This was often used to keep the masses subservient and obeying, there was no need for them to fight for a better life, as those in power could …show more content…
The main reason for this is that power is held as inferior to the model of the Oedipal framework. While in the Oediapl framework, the desire for power was pure, under pscyhoanalysis this rather reflects hidden sexual attachments based off of the familial complex. The contemporary fascist model manages to hold that power is a natural desire for the human race, while under psychoanalysis this constant desire for power is reflective of a neuroticism. The fascist can never tryly be well adjusted under the psychoanalytic model, as her desires are necessarily oriented towards the father rather than the "pure" desire for power. Even the ego is held as something that is at it's core victim to unconscious, reactive forces due to psychoanalysis. By positing that the fascist is a neurotic, the psychoanalyst is capable of undermining core elements of …show more content…
Since desire is viewed as fundamentally acquisitive to an external desired object, it follows that the desired object becomes a goal to be achieved. This leads to the problem of constant lack, in which once the initial desire is satisfied another one takes its place. The main point is that as soon as one desire is satisfied another desire takes its place. This leads to an infinite amount of goals that only leads to any sort of closure with the advent of death. Viewing desire as a process with not definitive goal in mind can help undermine this toxic misconception about the nature of
Desire has a complicated history to philosophy; for most of philosophy's history they were viewed as fundamentally opposed. Since Plato, philosophy has viewed desire as base and something to be controlled by reason. By emphasizing reason over base desires, philosophy encouraged a pervasive self-denial identified by Nietzsche as the ascetic ideal. The core of this ideology was based on the notion that beliefs should be based upon reason, that these base desires interfered with pure reason, and that these base desires were therefore evil. This was often used to keep the masses subservient and obeying, there was no need for them to fight for a better life, as those in power could …show more content…
The main reason for this is that power is held as inferior to the model of the Oedipal framework. While in the Oediapl framework, the desire for power was pure, under pscyhoanalysis this rather reflects hidden sexual attachments based off of the familial complex. The contemporary fascist model manages to hold that power is a natural desire for the human race, while under psychoanalysis this constant desire for power is reflective of a neuroticism. The fascist can never tryly be well adjusted under the psychoanalytic model, as her desires are necessarily oriented towards the father rather than the "pure" desire for power. Even the ego is held as something that is at it's core victim to unconscious, reactive forces due to psychoanalysis. By positing that the fascist is a neurotic, the psychoanalyst is capable of undermining core elements of …show more content…
Since desire is viewed as fundamentally acquisitive to an external desired object, it follows that the desired object becomes a goal to be achieved. This leads to the problem of constant lack, in which once the initial desire is satisfied another one takes its place. The main point is that as soon as one desire is satisfied another desire takes its place. This leads to an infinite amount of goals that only leads to any sort of closure with the advent of death. Viewing desire as a process with not definitive goal in mind can help undermine this toxic misconception about the nature of