more nomad - Deleuze "what children say"

The libido does not undergo metamorphoses, but follows world historical

trajectories. From this point of view, it does not seem that the

real and the imaginary form a pertinent distinction. A real voyage, by

itself, lacks the force necessary to be reflected in the imagination; the

imaginary voyage, by itself, does not have the force, as Proust says, to

be verified in the real. This is why the imaginary and the real must be,

rather, like two juxta posable or superimposable parts of a single trajectory,

twO faces that ceaselessly interchange with one another, a mobile

mi rror. Thus the Australian Aborigines link nomadic itineraries to

dream voyages, which together compose "an interstitching of routes,"

.. in an immense cut-out [decoupe) of space and time that must be read

like a map. " 7 At the limit, the imaginary is a virtual image that is interfused

with the real object, and vice versa, thereby constituting a crystal

of the unconscious. It is not enough for the real object or the real landscape

to evoke similar or related images; it must disengage its oum virtual

image at the same time that the latter, as an imaginary landscape,

makes its entry into the real, following a circuit where each of the two

terms pursues the other, is interchanged with the other. "Vision" is the

product of this doubling or splitting in two (doublement ou dedoublement],

this coalescence. It is in such crystals of the unconscious that the

trajectories of the libido are made visible.