| Summary: | <p>In his book concerning the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Žižek aims to expose its difficulties and contradictions. Žižek states that Deleuze’s philosophy is marked by the coexistence of two currents: one of the incorporeal, akin to Lacanian psychoanalysis, and on the other hand the ‘vitalist’ one, based on the identification of becoming with productivity. The Logic of Sense represent the former strand, although it is also marked with the fundamental difficulty consisting in the impossibility of deciding whether the effects/event (that is, the virtual) create<br />bodies, or, on the contrary, events are the product of bodies. The failure to resolve<br />this paradox, combined with the influence of Guattari, was the reason why Deleuze<br />tended to develop the simpler and less promising ‚vitalist’ ontology in his later works.<br />But how accurate is Žižek’s insight here? Isn’t it another example of reducing every<br />possible material to the Hegelian-Lacanian framework?</p>
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