Gilles Deleuze, Bartleby, Or The Formula - Melevillian Psychiatry

This lecture discusses key ideas from the 20th century philosopher and critic, Giles Deleuze's essay,"Bartleby, Or The Formula", found in his Essays Critical and Clinical. Deleuze's essay examines Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby The Scrivner".

This lecture focuses specifically on what Deleuze calls "Melvillian psychiatry" in the essay, distinguishing three main types of characters Melville's works center upon - demoniacal monomaniacs, angelic hypochondriacs, and "prophets" who witness to them as they try to enforce the law. Deleuze also discusses two different dynamics of identification, one which he associates with neuroses and narcissism, the other of which he associates with psychosis and schizophrenia.

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