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Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus" (Chapter 1/4)

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The Idealist Principle of Desire

From the very first step that the platonic illuat logic of desire forces us to take, making us choose between production and acquisition. Con for instance must be credited with affecting a critical revolution as regards the theory of desire by attributing it to it the faculty of being through its representations. So in opposition to this desire should be understood as part and parcel with the process of production. Where in it, you always are in the moving towards something other, something new that you don't necessarily know about. We're in the psychoanalytic imaginary, the eatable one.

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