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Oedipus as you wish to find, as much as you call forth in order to<br />

silence the machines (necessarily so, since Oedipus is both the<br />

repressing and the repressed, which is to say the stereotype-image<br />

that brings desire to a standstill, and attends to it, representing it as<br />

being at a standstill). An image is something that can only be seen ...<br />

It is the compromise, but the compromise distorts both parties alike,<br />

namely, the nature of the reactionary repressor and the nature of<br />

the revolutionary desire. It is the compromise, but the compromise<br />

distorts both parties alike, namely, the nature of the reactionary<br />

repressor and the nature of the revolutionary desire. In the compromise,<br />

the two parties have gone over the same side, as opposed to<br />

desire which remains on the other side, beyond compromise.<br />

In his two studies of Jules Verne, More came upon two themes,<br />

one after the other, which he presented simply as being distinct<br />

from each other: the Oedipal problem which Jules Verne lived both<br />

as father and as son, and the problem of the machine as the destruction<br />

of Oedipus and a substitute for women.7 But the problem of<br />

the desiring-machine, in its essentially erotic nature, is not in the<br />

least that of knowing whether a machine will ever he capable of giving<br />

"the perfect illusion of woman." On the contrary, the problem is: in<br />

which machine to place woman, in which machine does a woman<br />

put herself in order to become the non-Oedipal object of desire,<br />

which is to say, nonhuman sex In all the desiring-machines, sexuality<br />

does not consist of an imaginary woman-machine couple serving as<br />

a substitute for Oedipus, but of the machine-desire couple as the real<br />

production of a daughter born without a mother, a non-Oedipal<br />

woman (who would not be Oedipal neither fo r herself, nor for<br />

others). Yet there is no indication that people are growing tired of<br />

such entertaining narcissistic exercises as psychocriticism, which<br />

ascribes an Oedipal origin to the novel in general, bastards,<br />

foundlings. One must admit that the greatest authors lend themselves<br />

to this kind of misunderstanding, precisely because Oedipus<br />

,:' 99

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