ABSTRACT
Deleuze and Guattari’s second characteristic of minor composition is that ‘everything is political’ – or, put another way, the particular individual concern is immediately merged with social forces; ‘the arteries of the inside are in immediate contact with the lines of the outside’ (Deleuze 1989: 220). In major composition, autonomous, particular, or individual concerns are able to soar into a self-actualizing grandeur since the social exists as a facilitator of the molar individual form. Of course, these individual concerns meet with others, in a society of sorts, but there is no real intensity in the relations since each individual concern is on a similar scale, as an ‘exclusive disjunction’ (either this identity, or that, but never in between)12 with a closeted interior space:
In major literatures . . . the individual concern (familial, marital, and so on) joins with other no less individual concerns, the social milieu serving as a mere environment or a background; this is so much the case that none of these Oedipal intrigues are specifically indispensable or absolutely necessary but all become one in a large space.
