Deleuze and Love

This article examines Deleuze’s scattered references to love and positions this as an illustration of the ethics that could be extrapolated from his work. If the Deleuzian subject is commensurate with the ontology proposed in Difference and Repetition, then it is founded on a metaphysical difference that undermines identity as anything but a momentary congealing in time. How, I ask, might the extremely abstract subject that Deleuze proposes, a subject who can make no claim to identity, be considered to have a capacity for relating to others? Furthermore, how might this subject be capable of intimacy and love?