ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the intellectual legacy of Gilles Deleuze, whose critical and clinical philosophy resonates with edusemiotics as an integrative conceptual framework. His key notion of relational multiplicity provides a semiotic context. In contrast to Freudian psychoanalysis, Deleuze, together with Félix Guattari, proposed a schizoanalytic mode of the production of subjectivity. The chapter focuses on the cartography of the unconscious showcasing itself in experience in the form of affects at the level of the body. The chapter also discusses Paul Ricœur’s hermeneutics and the theory of narrative identity. The chapter asserts that edusemiotics can break open the hermeneutic circle. As related to education, the focus shifts from factual knowledge to the process of learning from signs as an experiment on ourselves and the world. Mapping the unconscious contributes to learning and elicits the creative construction of subjectivity while rejecting moral codes in favor of immanent ethical evaluations of experiential situations.
