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By the end of the twentieth century, it had been almost forgotten
that the Freudian account of the unconscious was only one of many
to have emerged from the intellectual ferment of the second half of
the 19th century. The philosophical roots of the concept of the
unconscious in Leibniz, Kant, Schelling and Schopenhauer had also
been occluded from view by the dominance of Freudianism. From his
earliest work of the 1940s, until his final writings of the 1990s,
Gilles Deleuze stood at odds with this dominant current, rejecting
Freud as sole source for ideas about the unconscious. This most
'contemporary' of French philosophers acted as custodian of all the
ideas that had been rejected by the proponents of the
psychoanalytic model, carefully preserving them and, when possible,
injecting them with new life. In 1950s and 60s Deleuze turned to
Henri Bergson's theories of memory and instinct and to Carl Jung's
theory of archetypes. In "Difference and Repetition (1968)" he
conceived of a 'differential unconscious' based on Leibnizian
principles. He was also immersed from the beginning in esoteric and
occult ideas about the nature of the mind. "Deleuze and the
Unconscious" shows how these tendencies combine in Deleuze's work
to engender a wholly new approach to the unconscious, for which
active relations to the unconscious are just as important as the
better known pathologies of neurosis and psychosis.
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