Anomalous and animal: reflections on becoming-animal and the line of flight through the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and the works of Jim Harrison and Caroline Lamarche

Abstract

This article intends to cross two literary points of view (Jim Harrison and Caroline Lamarche) and one philosophical point of view (Deleuze and Guattari) in order to point out the anthropological doubt and anxiety provoked by the question of animality. Starting from fictional stories or tales in which the humanity of man and woman is built by their animality, the aim of this paper is to experiment how the notion of «becoming animal» can operate and contribute to enlighten the enigma of animality for the human being.