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What Do Deleuze and Guattari Mean by 'Becoming-Animal'? (vs. Plato, Carl Jung, and James Hillman)

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The Concept of Becoming Animal

Becoming animal involves breaking with this logic in an effort to embody those intensities which have been relegated or suppressed by the so-called rational order. Doliz and Guattari believe that there is no subject or subjectivity other than the becoming itself, and it is through these becomeings that a new political freedom can be realized. In the end, the most important question surrounding the concept of becoming animal is how we might be able to formulate new political experiments. How do we create alliances akin to the animal becomeings of withered styles, break with the order of things, and perhaps inspire something truly revolutionary?

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