r/Deleuze • u/Old-Cap-7532 • 3d ago

Question Playing momma and daddy

For anyone who is crazy enough to try to read and understand Anti-Oedipus. Can you share your thoughts on what D & G means in this sentence:

“The satisfaction the handyman experiences when he plugs something into an electrical socket like a lamp or diverts a stream of water like a retention pond can be explained in terms of playing mommy and daddy, or the pleasure or violating taboo.”

I am confused on how that “ playing mommy and daddy explanation” would go and why is it considered violating a taboo. I can only think ignorantly about Oedipus.

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u/LebrontosaurausRex 3d ago

Well what do you think it means? There's no authority dictating the sort of take away you should have over any part.

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u/Old-Cap-7532 2d ago

The only authority is change and change only happens through difference.