Abstract

Up until now, Deleuze has been described as a transcendental philosopher who, despite constantly criticizing the philosophers of the transcendental tradition, never ceases to tackle the problem of the transcendental, which is to say, the conditions of experience. Therefore, he introduces his own version of the transcendental philosophy which underlies the materialization of the transcendental and deserves to be called transcendental materialism. But at the same time, a tendency is visible throughout Logic of Sense to abandon the language of transcendental philosophy, a tendency that remained with him for his entire career. His blatant preference of Antonin Artaud over Lewis Carroll or the generous praise he gives to pre-Socratic philosophers despite of spending a large part of Logic of Sense to the Stoics are examples of such a tendency. But at the end of the book, this tendency finds an extensive and systematic elaboration, when he turns towards psychoanalysis. This chapter aims to give a reading of this part in view of what we already discussed up until now.