Cura dal sé e ortotimia in Deleuze

The Care from the Self and Orthotymia in Deleuze This article examines the transformative re-conceptualization of the traditional notion of “desire” carried out by Deleuze and Guattari in Anti-Oedipus. Across the entirety of Deleuze’s work, one can trace an operative ethics characterized by a “care from the self” – a concept distinct from the “care of the self” from Foucauldian tradition. This ethics entails orthothymic effects, namely, the liberation of desiring production from its capture and subjugation by economic and political apparatuses, redirecting its investment toward vital and creative ends. The agents of this orthothymic “care from the self” are conceptual personae; this study specifically focuses on the Idiot, the Schizo, and Bartleby.