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The Masochistic Constitution of Victorian Capitalism

When Gilles Deleuze privileges Anglo-American literature as a scene of instruction for philosophy, or at least as the position from where to recalibrate the raison of philosophy, he notes a peculiar affinity of the English thought and capitalism, suggesting in fact that the two work from within an assemblage. I propose to test this Deleuzian suggestion against Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South (1855), the novel which undertakes to dissect the political economy of Victorian capitalism as a libidinal venture, adumbrating – as it turns out – many of the founding concerns of psychoanalysis. Given Deleuze’s interest in the critique of psychoanalysis, what follows is a discussion of Gaskell’s insight into the constitution of capitalism, also a discussion of how this insight contributes to Deleuze’s perspective on masochism.

capitalism; masochism; Victorian literature; Elizabeth Gaskell; Sigmund Freud; Gilles Deleuze

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