ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on to Gilles Deleuze for his systematic and extensive attempts to define structuralism, particularly in a series of works in the late 1960s and early 1970s. These works provide support to the thesis that psychoanalysis and structuralism are so intertwined as to be parts of the same movement of thought. In fact, it is not unlikely that Deleuze would have remained rather immune to Freud's attractions if, by the 1960s, and primarily through Lacan's intervention, psychoanalysis had not developed into an arena for probing structuralist thought. Lacan and Deleuze shared one passion: to explore and develop structuralism's potential for revolutionizing thought. The chapter distinguishes Deleuze's work from both Baruch Spinoza's and Lacan's, and confers on its idiosyncratic mark, conceptually, methodologically, and stylistically. It traces the parallels between Freud's actual series of repetition toward the constitution of fantasy as the object of psychoanalysis and Deleuze's reconstruction of this itinerary in his series of repetition in Difference and Repetition.
