Since Freud draws on the first version of entropy as referent, and Deleuze and Guattari draw on the second version of entropy as referent, two questions emerge: Can we say that Freud and Deleuze and Guattari are making the same claims for tropes of chaos (or entropy, or disorder) as grounds for their contending representations of subjectivity?
The descriptions of human consciousness in Freud and in Deleuze and Guattari are problematic precisely in their inverse, mirrored opposition, and we may discover the "ground" for that opposition by examining the role played by tropes from the discipline of physics in these theorists' representations of subjectivity.
Today, 19th-century representations of subjectivity are just not compelling to most people, but serve as entertainment, background music, or the superficial emblems of "cultured" style.
Her book First Person Jewish University of Minnesota Presss, 2008) explores aspects of the representation of self and subjectivity in first person film.
Shakespeare played a huge role in expanding the expressive capacity of the language, especially in the verbal representation of thinking and subjectivity.
If today body memory is one of the pillars of nontransferable subjectivity, perhaps the emergence of a physically manifested "collective memory"—made from audiovisual recordings and shared by electrodes that generate unintended stimuli may be the most material evidence and representation of post-modern subjectivity.
In addition to novelistic elements in poems and lyric passages in novels, there were deeper currents of mutual development in a complex reimagining of subjectivity and representation.
We are now habituated to regard cartography as a science: an endeavour of exacting precision, whose ambition is the elimination of subjectivity from the representation of a given place.
But Christianity, as we have seen, gives representation to a solution to the problem of subjectivity encountered in the form of Socrates.
This problem of representation then requires a rhetoric of the tropes of subjectivity that will discover the relationships among particular tropes representing specific functions of consciousness, such as the dreamwork, or the Oedipal scenario.
