Differenciating the Depths: A ‘Jungian Turn’ in Deleuze and Guattari Studies

Abstract

Although it is not clear that Deleuze and Guattari were simply and unambiguously Jungians, they extensively engaged with Jung’s depth psychology in both affirmative and critical ways. It is striking that Deleuze expresses a strong affinity between his work and that of Jung in several texts; Jung’s influence on Deleuze has not tended to be emphasised by scholars, though there is a rapidly growing ‘Jungian turn’ in Deleuze and Guattari studies. This article briefly extracts the influence of Jung on Deleuze and Guattari and, more extensively, explores profound resonances between Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition and James Hillman’s Re-Visioning Psychology.