M&D phrase; Deleuze & Guattari origin?

Daniel Torop daniel.torop at yale.edu
Tue May 20 21:57:38 CDT 1997


On Wed, 21 May 1997, Daniel O'Hara wrote:

> TRP may have introduced the phrase "vector of desire" from a reading of
> Lacan ...
<snip>
> The phrase in question, though, must surely emerge from Deleuze &
> Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus" ...
<snip>

Though the above theory sounds likely, I must say that the phrase
immediately reminded me of Paul Klee's "Pedagogical Sketchbook".  In it
Klee explains that if an arrow head is put upon a line, the resulting
arrow contains the essence of human tragedy, for the line is striving
beyond itself. 

Dan





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