Dream machine

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Wish machine (in the original French machine désirante , “desire machine ”) is a neologism that was introduced by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in 1972 in their work Anti-Oedipus : Capitalism and Schizophrenia Vol. 1 for the concept of a productive machine unconscious . The term was taken up in the philosophical and psychological discourse internationally and in the German-speaking area, for example by Henning Schmidgen : The unconscious of machines and by Klaus Theweleit : male fantasies , as well as - with loss of philosophical meaning - adopted into everyday culture and consumer culture. In its place, Deleuze and Guattari 1980 in their work Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia Vol. 2 , philosophically redefined, use the term “ assemblage ”.

Definitions

Anti-Oedipus (Volume I of Capitalism and Schizophrenia ) sees itself as a critique of the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan and Sigmund Freud . Psychoanalysis appears here as an instrument for maintaining (among other things, capitalist) dominance and repression, above all by submitting the subject to the phallic structure of culture. In contrast, Deleuze and Guattari develop the concept of the wish machine, an unconscious, whose function, unlike in psychoanalysis, is not linguistically structured. The subject is therefore not characterized by a negative lack (as in Lacan's), but by a positive desire. "Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (1972) counter Lacan's concept of the unconscious, which works like a calculating machine, with their concept of the dream machine, which is used to describe unconscious processes that cannot be modeled by any algorithm, however complex."

“It works everywhere, sometimes restlessly, then again with interruptions. It breathes, warms, eats. It sucks, it fucks. Das Es ... Everywhere there are machines in the truest sense of the word: machines of machines, with their clutches and gears. An organ machine connected to a source machine: the current produced by this is interrupted by the latter. The breast is a machine for making milk, and the mouth machine is linked to it. The mouth of the person without appetite is suspended between an eating machine, an anal machine, a speaking machine, a breathing machine (asthma attack). In this sense everyone is a hobbyist; everyone their little machines. "

"In the excessive machine vocabulary of the anti-Œdipe, everything becomes a machine: desire, society, language, body, life, economy, literature, painting, fantasy, schizophrenia, capitalism."

"The dream machines are not in our heads, are not products of our imagination, but exist in the technical and social machines themselves ."

See also

literature

  • Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Anti-Oedipus. Capitalism and Schizophrenia I , Frankfurt a. M. 1974 (orig. 1972), ISBN 3-518-07824-0
  • Sherry Turkle The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (1984) . On the emergence of computer culture , Reinbek: Rowohlt 1984, ISBN 3 498 06482 7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lutz Ellrich: Computer technology as an object of philosophical reflection. Institute for Theater, Film and Television Studies at the University of Cologne, 2003, accessed on November 26, 2009 (see footnote 14).
  2. ↑ Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia I . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt aM 1974, p. 7 .
  3. ↑ Henning Schmidgen: The unconscious of the machines. Conceptions of the psychic in Guattari, Deleuze and Lacan. Fink, Munich 1997, p. 10 .
  4. ↑ Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia I . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt aM 1974, p. 512.2 .