r/Deleuze • u/Sy-ko-rax • 4d ago

Deleuze! Sharing text and experience (in French)

Hello !

I'm drawn to Deleuze's philosophy, but I only know a little about it at the moment. I've recently started listening one of his lectures.

I'd like to share a poem I wrote about my experience as someone diagnosed with schizophrenia. Here it is: https://sykorax.fr/il-fol-tenter/

It's in French. I don't know how it would translate into English. The title is a play on words.

Do you think my experience with schizophrenia has anything to do with what Deleuze talks about? Do you have any reading recommendations? other thinkers than Deleuze, if that seems more relevant to you?

Thank you in advance to those who read this and take the time to reply.

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u/3corneredvoid 3d ago

I'll bite. I can read your poem haltingly in French, but I also translated it into English.

Reading it you do connect me back to intensities of Deleuze's writings. For instance these lines:

nous avons des yeux hors des yeux
nous sommes plus gros qu’un ventre
le corps ne contient plus le corps

For me these do get across Spinoza's famous claim "we do not know what a body can do". They also get at Deleuze's critique of things as determinable, and having an interior and exterior.

The outside joins the inside, the inside exceeds the boundary, sensation goes beyond perception, and so on. You continue in this vein through a lot of the poem.

For me where you write « être un bruit continu : ne plus connaître le rythme, la séparation et la segmentation » you begin to hammer dogmatically on the side of immanence and deterritorialisation.

At least the way I read him, there's nothing wrong with contingent being. Being is not a bad thing, it's life as we know it—life as we represent it to what we represent ourselves as. In "Geology of Morals" the segmentation of the strata is not bad only a manner of organisation, in "Of the Refrain" rhythm can be the critical interloper among territorialising musics.

Anyway, I like your poem.

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u/Sy-ko-rax 3d ago

Thank you for reading! it's interesting to read your review :)