ABSTRACT
Many connoisseurs of the debates surrounding the lives and the deaths of the poststructuralist subject complain that the underdetermined content of the notion subjectivity often leaves the debate without a point. Deleuze undoubtedly is among those who contributed decisively to the critical unmasking of old pretensions and to the hopeful invigilation for the arrival of the new. In recent discussions, the hypothesis has been put forward that the structure of the subject can be elucidated through a better understanding of the structure of the narrative. The resources of phenomenology and hermeneutics have been brought to bear upon this hypothesis with some promising results. Persons and subjects are the extensions of intensities, the dilations of contractions, and the domestications of differences. The Leibniz series gives people the building blocks for the static ontological genesis of the subject. The Nietzsche-Klossowski series displays the extensive and intensive rules governing the synthesis of these blocks.
