This article is intended to confront the concepts of desire in the theories of Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze, respectively, presenting several differences between a Hegelian model, based on law, fault, and negativity, and a Nietzschean model, based on affirmation and production. It this becomes possible to conceive of two forms of subjectivation, likewise diverse, one centered on an oedipal view, and another deriving from the critique of this matrical model. The purpose is thus to confront the notion of a negative transgression, based on the denial of law and order, with a concept of creative or positive transgression, based on the affirmation of difference.
Desire; law; transgression; Lacan; Deleuze