7.03.2008

A great Japanese compilation of Chinese Taoist treatises was made in A.D. 982-984. We see in it the formation of a circuit of intensities between female and male energy, with the woman playing the role of the innate or instinctive force (Yin) stolen by or transmitted to the man in such a way | that the transmitted force of the man (Yang) in turn becomes innate, all the more innate: an augmentation of powers.14 The condition for this circula- ' tion and multiplication is that the man not ejaculate. It is not a question of experiencing desire as an internal lack nor of delaying pleasure in order to produce a kind of externalizable surplus-value, but instead of constituting an intensive body without organs. Tao, a field of immanence- in--which desirelacks nothing and therefore cannot be linked to any external or tran­scendent criterion. It is true that the whole circuit can be channeled toward procreative ends'(ejaculation when the energies are right); that is how Con­fucianism understood it. But this is true only for one side of the assemblage of desire, the side facing the strata, organisms. State, family... It is not true for the other side, the Tao side of destratification that draws a plane of consistency proper to desire.

from: http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpdeleuze2.htm

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