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his necessary connection to the univocal being. The Overman is the individual who is never fully
individuated. He is the passive self who at the same time has the capacity to say ‘I.’ It is for this
reason that the Overman is the perfect individual to unify the faculties while preserving their
differences. In other words, he is the perfect individual to be the paradoxical unity of open
faculties, that is faculties that encounters their own Ideas.
If the most important faculty for the Cogito is the faculty of the understanding, the most
important faculty for the Overman is the sensibility. In other words, the Overman can be the
paradoxical unity of faculties precisely because he synthesizes sensibly. For this reason, it ought
not to surprise us that the faculty of sensibility becomes the most important faculty for Deleuze.
“It is true that on the path which leads to that which is to be thought, all begins with sensibility”
(DR 144). Deleuze priorities the faculty of sensibility, because sensibility is the faculty that is
developed precisely in this encounter such that its form is not different from its matter. “In effect,
the intensive or difference in intensity is at once both the object of the encounter and the object
to which the encounter raises sensibility” (DR 144-5). This is what it means to say that repetition
repeats the power of difference. “The privilege of sensibility as origin appears in the fact that, in
an encounter, what forces sensation and that which can only be sensed are one and the same
thing…” (DR 144-5). In this sense, the thing that each faculty encounters from its own
perspective is actually what the faculty of sensibility encounters from its own perspective. For
this reason, Deleuze can advance the controversial claim against Kant that what sensibility
senses just is the Idea. In other words, that the intuitions without concepts are not blind but that
they can see also means that the Idea is not transcendent, but is rather immanent. It is what we
sense outside the concept. When the faculties are dislodged from the Cogito they fall back into
the one and the same univocal being. However, for each of those faculties that one and the same
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