The paper explores the fundamental influence of Sartre’s “La transcendance de l’ego” on Deleuze’s philosophy of the difference. When the transcendental field becomes impersonal and purified from the presupposition of a unified ego, the “cracked I” finally acquires the power of the differential unconsciousness and puts us on the way for thinking. For we have to be delivered from the “internal life” in order to promote the new image of thought where everything is outside: everything, even ourselves. Hence, the paper demonstrates in what respect the legacy of Sartre’s impersonal consciousness affects Deleuze’s concept of the virtual found in Difference and Repetition.
Lebedev, O. (2016). On the Possibility of Thought without Subject: Sartre and Deleuze. Deleuze studies conference, Rome. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/185757