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The bifurcated framework of this project attempts, firstly: to examine the cosmologies of Deleuze’s \"Difference and Repetition\" and Lacan’s tenth seminar on anxiety from within the limits of each field, rather than through a relational model in which the singularity of each is compromised and, secondly: to thereby offer a conceptual elucidation of \"chaos\" and \"cosmos\" – two dimensions that scholarship in each discourse commonly relegates to metaphorical status. In the former text, the Joycean neologism \"chaosmos\" is employed on several occasions that either tacitly or explicitly elucidate Deleuze's interpretation of Nietzsche. Recourse to \"chaosmos\" provides \"Difference and Repetition\" with its broadest possible vantage point; a genesis of the universe seen through its internal, rather than external, negative differences and, given the term's frequent occurrence alongside Nietzsche's model of the eternal recurrence, a cosmological cycle that differentiates chaos into cosmos, ad infinitum. For Lacan, his emphasis and continual return to the relation between \"the world\" and \"the stage\" undergirds his critique of Claude Lévi-Strauss's notion of \"the world\" as expressed in \"The Savage Mind.” To examine this moment as prefiguring Lacan's break with structuralism is certainly insightful in its own right yet this well-documented rupture, in my reading, also provides a tool that works to expose the \"world\" and \"cosmos\" implicit to Lévi-Strauss's notion of structure. Ultimately, beneath both of these chapters is the foundation of a single question: Is the absolute limit of a discourse’s conception of either the “cosmos” of \"chaos\" a point which inevitably converges with external fields or, perhaps more significantly, does this point mark a space without extension?"]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Chaosmology: The Concept of Chaos and Cosmos in the Writings of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Miller, Steven","English"],"dc:creator":["Barr, Michael; 0000-0002-4787-4480"],"dc:date":["2019-10-29T16:48:08Z","2019","2019-08-08 14:20:50"],"dc:description":["M.A.","This thesis examines the function of \"chaos\" and “cosmos” as understood through its spellings, conceptual roles and affects within the contexts of two discourses; philosophical and psychoanalytic. 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