Gilles’io Deleuze’o ir Felixo Guattari kūno samprata
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s concept of the body

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the concept of the body as described by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The main conceptual problem here is that Deleuze and Guattari withdraw from the psychoanalytical notion of the body which interprets it in terms of missing or lost identity and inscribe the body into the flow of economic, technological and political processes. For this reason, Deleuze and Guattari introduce such concepts as desire, machine, production, assemblage, multiplicity, the body without organs, becoming. These concepts enable to interpret the concept of the body not in terms of identity (of organism, signification and subjectification), but in terms of the body without organs (functioning as disarticulation, experimentation, desubjectification). The body without organs functions as a platform for different molecular becomings which traverse molar identities and stratified territories. The article also discusses what political implications follow from this concept of becoming and what questions it raises for postfeminism, multiculturalism and political theory in general.

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