Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari

Author:Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari
Language: eng
Format: epub

short-circuited, abducted by the new alliance and direct

SAVAGES, BARBARIANS. CIVILIZED MEN

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filiation, then the ancestor—the master of the mobile and finite blocks—

finds himself dismissed by the deity, the immobile organizer of the

bricks and of their infinite circuit.

7 Barbarian or Imperial Representation

Incest with the sister and incest with the mother are very

different things. The sister is not a substitute for the mother: the one

belongs to the connective category of alliance, the other to the disjunc-

tive category of filiation. Incest with the sister is prohibited insofar as

the conditions of territorial coding require that alliance not be confound-

ed with filiation; and incest with the mother, insofar as descent within

filiation must not be allowed to interfere with ascending lines. That is

why the despot's incest is twofold, by virtue of the new alliance and

direct filiation. He begins by marrying the sister. But he enters into this

forbidden endogamous marriage outside the tribe, inasmuch as he is

himself outside his tribe, on the outside or at the outer limits of the

territory. This is what Pierre Gordon showed in his strange book: the

same rule that proscribes incest must prescribe it for certain persons.

Exogamy must result in the position of men outside the tribe who for

their part are entitled to an endogamous marriage and are able, by virtue

of this formidable right, to serve as initiators to exogamous subjects of

both sexes: the "sacred deflowerer," the "ritual initiator" on the

mountain or across the waters.* The wilderness, land of betrothal. All

the flows converge on a man such as this, all the alliances find

themselves countersected by this new alliance that overcodes them.

Endogamous marriage outside the tribe places the hero in a position to

overcode all the endogamous marriages in the tribe.

It is clear that incest with the mother has a completely different

meaning: this time it is a question of the mother of the tribe, as she exists

in the tribe, as the hero finds her in penetrating into the tribe, or finds her

again in returning to the tribe after his first marriage. He countersects

the extended filiations with a direct filiation. The initiated or initiating

hero becomes king. The second marriage develops the consequences of

the first, it draws out the effects of the first. The hero begins by marrying

the sister, than he marries the mother. The fact that the two acts can, to

varying degrees, be bound together, assimilated, does not rule out the

*Pierre Gordon, L'iniUation se xuelle e t Ve 'volutuion re ligieuse (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1946), p. 164: "The sacred personage . . . did not live in the little agricultural village, but in the woods, like the hero Enkidu of the Chaldean epic, or on the mountain, in the sacred enclosure. His occupations were those of a herdsman or a hunter, not those of a cultivator. The obligation to resort to him for sacred marriages, the only kind of marriage that enhanced the woman's position, therefore entailed ipso facto an exogamy. Under these conditions only the young women belonging to the same group as the ritual deflowerer could be endogamous."

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ANTI-OEDIPUS

existence of two sequences in the phenomenon: the union with the princess-sister

and the union with the mother-queen.

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