Between Two Logics: Deleuze and Artaud on the Logics of Sense and Sensation Público
Causey, Robert (2010)
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Between Two Logics: Deleuze and Artaud on the
Logics of Sense and Sensation
By Robert Mark Causey
My dissertation takes a look at the critical appropriation of the
work of the poet, actor,
playwright, and artist, Antonin Artaud, by the philosopher Gilles
Deleuze. I trace a
development in Deleuze's understanding of Artaud primarily from his
early The Logic of
Sense to his Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation by
demonstrating how the
confrontation with Artaud, in part, helps Deleuze move from a logic
of sense to a logic of
sensation. I focus particularly on the issue of language and the
image of the Body
without Organs that Deleuze takes from Artaud's 1947 radio play,
"To Have Done with
the Judgment of God." I argue that Deleuze's conception of the Body
without Organs is
not the same as Artaud's conception of it. In looking at Deleuze's
early reading of
Artaud in The Logic of Sense, I argue that he makes a
clinical diagnosis of Artaud based
on what he takes to be Artaud's schizophrenic language. There
Deleuze reads Artaud as
someone who is trapped in the corporeal depths of sensation unable
to rise to the surface
of sense. Artaud's nonsense (unlike Lewis Carroll's) is thus a
failure to achieve sense.
While the understanding of schizophrenia develops and expands
especially during the
period of collaboration with Félix Guattari, I maintain
that an element of this clinical
judgment never disappears from Deleuze's relationship with Artaud.
Artaud, I contend,
resists the depersonalizing aspects of Deleuze's philosophy by
wanting to maintain a
certain sense of self-presence. I show in what ways Deleuze, in
spite of the apparent
valorization of schizophrenia in the later works, always keeps
Artaud at arm's length and
tries to separate the man and his works in a way that Artaud will
not allow. By doing so,
I argue that Deleuze unwittingly repeats the error of the
NRF editor, Jacques Rivière, in
his correspondence with the young Artaud by failing to grasp the
uniqueness of Artaud's
personal case and suffering. This suffering is individuating for
Artaud. At issue is
Deleuze's method of reading a literary author as well as the
relationship between
philosophy and madness, and Deleuze's aesthetics.
Between Two Logics: Deleuze and Artaud on the
Logics of Sense and Sensation
By
Robert Mark Causey
M.A., University of Kentucky, 2004
Advisor: Thomas R. Flynn, Ph.D.
A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the
James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies of Emory University
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
In Philosophy
2010
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
: 1 - 6
Chapter One: Language on the Surface of Sense 7 -
36
Chapter Two: Artaud and the (IL)Logic of Sense 37 -
66
Chapter Three: The Mistrust of Language 67 - 94
Chapter Four: Logics of Sensation 95 - 125
Chapter Five: To Have Done with the Judgment of
Deleuze 126 - 158
Conclusion: 159 - 167
Bibliography: 168 - 173
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