CONTRIBUTI / 6 / di Alessio Lembo
The remarkable interest aroused by Spinoza at the beginning of the twentieth century produced a use of his thought regardless of any thematic limitation. In fact, since the 1930s, the name of Spinoza is frequently cited, for example, in discussions on psychoanalysis. But it is Gilles Deleuze who carries out this process of ‘hyperinterpretation’ and ‘actualization’, by integrating the thought of Spinoza practically in every passage of his work: in this case, the link between psychological attitude and political implications is investigated here starting from what, in the anti–Oedipus, Deleuze and Guattari pose as the great question of the century, that is why men fight for their slavery as if it were their own freedom. In the second part of the article, emphasis is laid on the Spinozian interpretation by Antonio Damasio and on the neurobiological explanation of conatus and affectus, emotions and feelings and the related political implications.
