Applied Schizoanalysis: Towards a Deleuzian Poetics
Applied Schizoanalysis: Towards a Deleuzian Poetics

Summary/Abstract: This article argues for the importance of Gilles Deleuze’s work for contemporary literary studies, and specifically for poetics, an application of Deleuze’s philosophy that has yet to be adequately explored. Deleuze’s own method of reading is examined for its engagement with the problem of reading, an engagement that made possible what Deleuze terms, in his collaborative work with Félix Guattari, schizoanalysis. Schizoanalysis is synonymous, this essay argues, with what can be thought of as Deleuzian poetics. Schizoanalysis is examined in detail and three central schizoanalytic questions are identified: these questions provide a stimulus and guide to staging encounters between Deleuze’s work and contemporary poetry. Finally, comments on Deleuze and Guattari’s brief reading of Allen Ginsberg’s poem ‘Kaddish’ are offered as a demonstration of a schizoanalytic reading, that is, of a Deleuzian poetics.

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