AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsChapter 1Introduction1. Debate2. The dynamic genesis and Melanie Klein3. Approach and organisation of the textChapter 2Schizoid position1. Introduction2. Fundamental concepts3. The dynamism of the paranoid-schizoid position according to Melanie Klein4. The simulacrum and Plato5. The schizoid position6. Artaud, language and schizophrenia7. ConclusionChapter 3Depressive position1. Introduction2. The manic-depressive position of Melanie Klein3. The depressive position according to Deleuze: the object of the heights4. Good object as lost object5. Lack and affirmation in the depressive position6. Body, language and the depressive position7. ConclusionChapter 4Sexual-perverse position1. Introduction2. Pre-genital phase of the sexual-perverse position: surface of the body3. The physical surface and the defusion of the drives4. Sexual position -; discussion with Laplanche and Pontalis5. Pre-genital sexuality -; relation towards structures6. Genital sexuality7. The Oedipus complex8. The genital phase of the sexual-perverse position: relationship to structures9. ConclusionChapter 5Oedipus complex and beyond1. Introduction2. Oedipal desire and narcissism3. Castration complex4. Emergence of the metaphysical surface5. The decline of the good intentions6. Metaphysical surface and the drives7. The crack in the metaphysical surface -; the dangers of the post-castration phase8. ConclusionChapter 6The phantasm1. Introduction2. The phantasm and the body3. The quasi-cause and the ideational surface4. Psychoanalysis as science of events5. The phantasm and the ego in psychoanalysis6. Neutral energy and disjunctive synthesis7. Love and nationalismChapter 7Conclusion1. Psychoanalysis2. Philosophical implications3. The Logic of Sense and the collaboration with GuattariReferencesIndexA close reading of Deleuze’s major text on desireGilles Deleuze is among the twentieth century's most important philosophers of difference. The style of his extended oeuvre is so extremely dense and cryptic that reading and appreciating it require an unusual degree of openness and a willingness to enter a complicated but extremely rich system of thought. The abundant debates with and references to a variety of authors of many different domains; the sophisticated conceptual framework; the creation of new concepts and the injection of existing concepts with new meanings - all this makes his oeuvre difficult to grasp.This book can be seen as a guide to reading Deleuze, but at the same time it is a direct confrontation with issues at stake, particularly the debate with and against psychoanalysis. This debate not only offers the occasion to find an entrance to Deleuze's basic thought, but also throws the reader into the middle of the dispute. The book provides a clear and perspicuous overview of subject matter of interest to psychoanalysts, Deleuzean or otherwise.The engagement of Deleuze with psychoanalysis has led to the development of a remarkable and highly influential theory about human desire. The most systematic account of this theory, crucial for anyone interested in the work of Deleuze and Guattari, can be found in the discussion of the dynamic genesis of sense, a pivotal part of Deleuze’s The Logic of Sense.In Deleuze and Desire Piotrek Świątkowski picks up the challenge to provide an ad literam commentary of this text. Świątkowski makes use of a broad range of examples, from psychoanalytic case studies to art, literature, and film, and analyses in an accessible and clear way the impact of the work of psychoanalysts such as Melanie Klein on Deleuze.