Introduction When people come along to seek out therapeutic conversations, it is generally because they are not happy with how things are going in their lives and they would like things to be diff erent. This paper explores some broad implications for practice which arise from understandings about identity which emphasise diff erence and possibility, and describes how these connect with the int...

In this paper I employ the notion of the ‘thought of the outside’ as developed by Michel Foucault, in order to defend the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze against the criticisms of ‘elitism,’ ‘aristocratism,’ and ‘political indifference’—famously leveled by Alain Badiou and Peter Hallward. First, I argue that their charges of a theophanic conception of Being, which ground the broader political clai...

In Hegel au Spinosa:' Pierre Macherey challenges the influence of Hegel's reading of Spinoza by stressing the degree to which Spinoza eludes the grasp of the Hegelian dialectical progression of the history of philosophy. He argues that Hegel provides a defensive misreading of Spinoza, and that he had to "misread him" in order to maintain his subjective idealism. The suggestion being that Spinoz...

This paper discusses the relationship between anthropology and philosophy of Gilles Deleuze Phelix Guattari. It aims to show ways in which influenced work these authors with special emphasis on theories concepts Guattari adopted from Gregory Bateson. These include those double bind, rhizome plateau intensity.