IVIV (1) Mickey Wolfmann

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Heikki
Raudaskoski<hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:

> As we know, the Wolf-Man is one Freud's most famous cases. But I think
> it's Deleuze&Guattari's take on the case that may prove vital here.
>
> In A Thousand Plateaus, D&G see that SF domesticates the Wolf-Man into
> a safe family triangle, makes him a dog. He cannot see that wolves are
> always a multiplicity, a pack. "In becoming-wolf, the important thing
> is the position of the mass, and above all the position of the subject
> itself in relation to the pack or wolf-multiplicity: how the subject
> joins or does not join the pack, how far away it stays, how it does or
> does not hold to the multiplicity." Drawing on Canetti, D&G distinguish
> mass territoriality [like real estates...] from pack deterritorialization.
>
> http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3178238&pagenumber=1
>
> Is Mickey W domesticated too, from his dreams of a desert multiplicity?
>
> And yet: is the wolf always plural as D&G say, or are there lone wolves
> like private eyes who "do not hold to the multiplicity", but are not
> domesticated and massed ("straightened", "squared", what have you) either?

>From the Fakebook (VL, p. 97)!  Thanks as always, Heikki, esp. as I've
been trying all day to get up a Wolfmann post.  I've long had D&G's
description of a wolf as essentially a prow with teeth stuck in my
head (see also sharks, I would imagine).  Also want to get to ...

http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/A/abraham_wolf.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=fBMu-EeV9ZIC

But in the meantime, now a bona fide Classic:

http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143105824,00.html?strSrchSql=deleuze/Anti-Oedipus_Gilles_Deleuze