Organless body

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Organless body ( English Body without organs , French Corps sans organes ) is a term introduced into philosophy by Gilles Deleuze . It describes a psychophysical reality before the formation of an organized interplay of body parts in the broadest sense, including semantic particles. So it is also applicable to literary corpora . Deleuze first used the term in Logic of Sense (1969) when discussing the experiences of the playwright Antonin Artaud . In the radio piece that he was finished with God's judgment (1947), he said:

"When you have made it a body without organs, you will have freed it from all automatic reactions and restored it to its true freedom."

The organ-free body then became the central concept in the schizoanalysis developed in collaboration with Félix Guattari .

Deleuze and Guattari interpret the organ-free body in Spinoza's sense

  1. as the first and only world substance that is immanent to everything that always exists,
  2. the partial organs as modifications of the same substance which
  3. under the aspects of expansion, thinking etc. should be understood as the attributes of substance.

Since Deleuze and Guattari are postmodern thinkers who do not adhere to a primacy of identity, substance is not overriding the modes, as is the case with Spinoza. Rather, there is an equal order. The modes, i.e. intensities, thresholds, gradients, language molecules, splits etc. bring about the organ-free body in a certain sense, so that the authors like to use James Joyce's term chaosmos synonymously.

“That is why the partial objects are not the expression of a dismembered, torn organism that transcends a - now destroyed unit - or the parts freed from a whole. Ultimately, the organ-objects are one and the same thing, a multiplicity understood as such by schizoanalysis. The partial objects form the direct forces of the body without organs, and the body without organs the pure matter of the partial objects. The organ-free body is matter that always fills space with this or that degree of intensity, and the partial objects make up these degrees, these intense parts which, starting from matter as zero intensity, produce the real in space. "

Since there are many types of intensity aggregates, one can speak of many organless bodies, a thousand plateaus. Deleuze dedicated a study of his own to that of the masochist . Also Elfriede Jelinek protagonist of the novel The Piano Teacher yearns for a body without organs.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari: Anti-Oedipus . 7th edition. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 978-3-518-27824-6 , p. 421 f.
  2. ↑ Brent Adkins: Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus . University Press, Edinburgh 2015, ISBN 9780748686452 , pp. 101 ff. (English).
  3. ^ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch : Venus in fur . With a study of the masochism by Gilles Deleuze (= island pocket book 469). Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 978-3-458-32169-9 .