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An assemblage (French agencement; sometimes translated as "arrangement") is a philosophical concept developed by Deleuze and Guattari in their books Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972-80) and Kafka: Toward a Theory of Minor Literature (1975).[2] In their critical "schizoanalytic" theory, the concept of the assemblage replaces the Freudian psychoanalytic concepts of the complex and the drive.[3] Desire, they claim, is determined by assemblages.[4] The assemblage offers a theoretical means to elaborate the multiple and collective dimensions of our unconscious: "not ego as subject", Deleuze explains, but rather "these peoples who are in us and who make us speak, and who are the source of our statements"[5] The assemblage is also used more broadly in their work to analyze a wide range of social, historical, cultural and psychological phenomena; examples include the assemblages of the State apparatus and the war machine, the despotic assemblage and the authoritarian assemblage, courtship assemblages, including that of courtly love, game assemblages, the classical, romantic and modern assemblages of music, assemblages formed by the novels of Beckett, Kafka and Proust, both a masochist's and Little Hans' "becoming-horse" assemblages, Freudian assemblages of listening and modelisation, the La Borde psychiatric clinic, and the feudal assemblage.[6] Among others, Antonio Negri, Michael Hardt, and Manuel de Landa have used the concept in their writings.
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