assemblage

is a whole ensemble which takes one up, just as little hans is taken up by his mother's bed, the paternal element, the house, the cafe across the street, the nearby warehouse, the street, the right to go onto the street, the winning of this right, the pride of winning it, the fall, shame.

So just what is the becoming-horse of Little Hans' Hans is also taken up in an assemblage: his mother's bed, the paternal element, the house, the cafe across the street, the nearby warehouse, the street, the right to go out onto the street, the winningof this right, the pride of winning it, but also the dangers of winning it, the fall, shame . . . These are not phantasies or subjective reveries: it is not a question of imitating a horse, 'playing' horse, identifying with one, or even experiencing feelings of pity or sympathy. Neither does it have to do with an objective analogy between assemblages. The question is whether Little Hans can endow his own elements with the relations of movement and rest, the affects, that would make it become horse, forms and subjects aside. (D&G 'thousand' : 257-8)

is an aggregate. As such, desire of something never simply desire of some woman, but the aggregate of, say, the skirt, a sun ray, a street, a woman, a vista, a color.

'So, there is no desire, says Deleuze, that does not flow into an assemblage, and for him, desire has always been a constructivism, constructing an assemblage (agencement), an aggregate: the aggregate of the skirt, of a sun ray, of a street, of a woman, of a vista, of a color. . . constructing an assemblage, constructing a region, assembling'.

is an unnatural participation, one which, for example a child can mount in order to solve a problem from which all exist are barred him.

Psychoanalysis has no feeling for unnatural participations, nor for the assemblages a child can mount in order to solve a problem from which all exits are barred him: a plan(e), not a phantasy. Similarly, fewer stupidities would be uttered on the topic of pain, humiliation, and anxiety in masochism if it were understood that it is the becomings-animal that lead the masochism, not the other way around. (D&G 'thousand' : 260)

is capable of opening new possibilities of thinking when we see that it is not possessed by nor situated exclusively around the individual in question. In the becoming-animal of, say, a child,, the assemblage is neither the child's nor the animal's but is that of the becoming-animal of the child.

Is there an as yet unknown assemblage that would be neither Hans's nor the horse's, but that of the becoming-horse of Hans' An assemblage, for example, in which the horse would bare its teeth and Hans might show something else, his feet, his legs, his peepee-maker, whatever' And in what way would that ameliorate Hans's problem, to what extent would it open a way out that had been previously blocked' (D&G 'thousand' : 258)

is not to be thought of as an organic whole made up of specific elements which are held in place by the organization of a unity. Rather, various pieces of the assemblage, when drawn into the territory of another, changing each other's value as an element and bring about a new unity.

Becoming-' is a process of change, flight, or movement within an assemblage. Rather than conceive of the pieces of an assemblage as an organic whole, within which the specific elements are held in place by the organization of a unity, the process of 'becoming-' serves to account for relationships between the 'discrete' elements of the assemblage. In 'becoming-' one piece of the assemblage is drawn into the territory of another piece, changing its value as an element and bringing about a new unity. An example of this principle might be best illustrated in the way in which atoms are drawn into an assemblage with nearby atoms through affinities rather than an organizational purpose. The process is one of deterritorialization in which the properties of the constituent element disappear and are replaced by the new properties of the assemblage 'becomings-molecular of all kinds, becomings-particles' (D&G 272).

is of an intermediate scale to either problematizations or apparatuses. They last for mere decades.

Assemblages are of an intermediate scale to either problematizations or apparatuses. They last for mere decades. 'A central task of the anthropology of the actual is to identify conjunctures between and among these diverse objects, and between and among their temporalities and functionalities.' (Rabinow 2009:56)

is the collection of entirely disparate feelings, sights, emotions, rules, environmental determinants, anomalies, particularities, etc. That come together as a single block of 'reality'. Freud's little hans' assemblage is made up at a particular moment of such particulars as his mother's bed, the paternal element, the house, the cafe across the street, the nearby warehouse, the street, the right to go out onto the street, the winning of this right, the pride of winning it, etc. But this is not a ph

Hans is also taken up in an assemblage: his mother's bed, the paternal element, the house, the cafe across the street, the nearby warehouse, the street, the right to go out onto the street, the winning of this right, the pride of winning it, but also the dangers of winning it, the fall, shame. . . These are not phantasies or subjective reveries: it is not a question of imitating a horse, 'playing' horse, identifying with one, or even experiencing feelings of pity or sympathy. (D&G TP 257-8).

is the coming together of living beings (for example, humans, animals, plants) in particular configurations in particular times and places. An assemblage continually makes and unmakes itself through lines of flight, movements of deterritorialization.

Assemblages are living beings (for example, humans, animals, plants) and things that come together in particular configurations in particular times and places. Assemblages are continually making and unmaking themselves through lines of flight, movements of deterritorialization. Furthermore, Deleuze maintains that lines of flight are primary... they constitute the 'cartography of the social field' (1997).

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