ABSTRACT
Robinson Crusoe is twenty-two years old, has a wife and two children. He has been libidinally “triangulated,” Gilles Deleuze says; he has achieved the telos of reproductive sexuality that the Oedipus stracturation is the instrument for. Now he enlists as a seaman on the Virginia; he sets out to go far—far from the objectives of his English world, libidinally far beyond paternal and reproductive sexuality. Michel Tournier, in his novel Friday, 1 tells of this voyage to a remote, exotic, ultimate sexuality, which is not a return to infancy or to aboriginal humanity and which will take Robinson beyond what carnal desire can long for. This voyage begins on a deserted island, where terra firma is doubled by the objects situated on it and objectives sought on it, and doubled by the free elements—by light that does not elucidate or clarify, wind-intoned musicality without a text, sun that fecundates an inhuman progeny. The book charts a voyage sur place across the ontological region of doubles, and discovers the destiny of the metamorphoses of the libidinal body.
