by Sadeep Man Tulachan

Created on: May 27, 2010   Last Updated: June 20, 2010

The philosophical discourse of the western world explodes into dispersion from its contraction in the lineage of history of western philosophy. Up to the modern era the philosophy of Western world remains in arborescence, tracing of a single seed. Later, when the postmodern era emerges, the philosophical dispute rises and takes its height. The expansion of big balloon exploded and the big explosion was heard in the whole Western literary world. The ground breaking findings disperse and diffuse everywhere on wide area of Western literary world of knowledge, like a chemical elements of bomb disperse after its explosion. But, its chemical components or matter remains in various degrees of its unity and dispersion without changing its original form of heterogeneity.

The new philosophical concept opens the gate of wide ground where everything can be played without any hesitation. The narrow congested place of western thought flows in a direction of space with no boundaries. Hence so forth, stated a new era called postmodernism. The terminal way is expanded in a various degrees, and dimensions with no dead end. The hierarchy has been broken, the binary opposition has been removed and the supplement has been loosen and flows like a patch of oil in every direction with no final stop. The central discussion moves away to its multiplicities. The rhizomatic zone has been introduced with no beginning and no end but “and, “and” and “and”. The rigidly fixed values, hierarchy, arborescence, territorial code, system have been deterritorialized with rhizomatic zone of multiplicities. Then started a thought; the tentacles of octopus body as heterogeneous, plurality, dispersion, diffusion, chaos with no beginning and no end.

Deleuze and Guattari, the two prominent figures of this era emerged with their completely new revolutionary definition of desire. They believe in the productive nature of desire, which desire is nature and the essence of nature is the production. They in collaboration published Anti-Oedipus (1972), the first volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia followed by the second volume A Thousand Plateaus (1980). It has been widely discussed in the academic, political, psychological and various other subjects. It is written against the representational thinking and belief of the Western world and deconstructs it with their ideas of heterogeneity and multiplicities.

Their discussion centers round the Oedipus-complex of Psychoanalysis

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