Theory of Subjectification in Gilles Deleuze: A Study of the Temporality in Capitalism

<p>This dissertation looks at time as a socially or psychologically imposed ‘structure’ that determines the ways in which past, present and future are weaved together in the subject. This inquiry presents (1) a critical role of temporality in the formation of the subject, (2) a specific temporality characteristic of contemporary financial capitalism, and (3) the pathologies of time found in the subjects of capitalism. The first two chapters provide an extensive analysis of Deleuze’s passive syntheses of time given in Difference and Repetition, which reveals the subject’s passive relation to time as a structure of ‘becoming.’ The following chapters examine how this ontological structure of time interacts with socio-economic temporalities in its production of the subject. I particularly focus on the temporal structure of debt, which has become a general condition of the subjects in the current economic system. I claim that the debt-based economy produces ‘melancholic subjectivity,’ characterized by a dominance of the past and the inhibition of becoming.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

One-year Embargo

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Philosophy

Year dc:date.available

2017

Author dc:creator

• Jeong, Boram

Contributors dc:contributor

• Fred Evans
• Jay Lampert
• Daniel Selcer
• Leonard Lawlor
• Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc

• Debt; Financial Capitalism; Gilles Deleuze; Melancholic subjectivity; Passive synthesis of time; Subjectification

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/170

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-1179