ABSTRACT
Deleuze's notion of the quasi-cause is helpful, which supplies an alternative to reductionism. Deleuze offers an organ sans body in the form of the Gaze in the time-image. Deleuze's affirmation of energy, an affect and an organ that is autonomous from bodies yet territorializes them resembles Lacan's own theory of the Gaze. Deleuze ultimately politicizes his philosophy by focusing on an immanent excess that is essential to revolutionary enthusiasm thought through the Lacanian lens of desire. Zizek values Deleuze as a critic of psychoanalysis, a figure supplying theoretical underpinnings for materialist and anti-capitalist activism, and an all-around staple of leftist academic thought. He also praises Deleuze's account of masochism for offering an insightful formulation of Kantian moral law. For Zizex, affect is the key concept that aligns Deleuze with Lacan. In drawing an ontological distinction between being and becoming, Deleuze ascribes a transcendental quality to the process of becoming.
