If we take the idea of philosophical traditions seriously, then we would have to say that in Australia the original Freudian psychoanalysis did not move from the edge to the center of power, nor did it justify itself as a new structure of order. That may have happened in France in the 20 th century but it did not happen in Australia.

In Australia Freudian psychoanalysis has remained on the edge of medical power. It is psychiatry that stands in the centre of power, even though psychiatry failed to solve the notion of madness, and it stands accused of treating as insane certain people who are not exactly so, and of not seeing in time the madness of others who clearly are.

What we do have in Australia is a whole 'psychopathology of everyday life'. This is the world of neurotics in which psychoanalysis is involved. So we can implicitly align psychoanalysis along with psychiatry with a medical officialdom that psychiatry was striving to become. Both are part of modernity's discourses and institutions which repress desire.

What Deleuze argues is that this officialdom understands desire to be constituted as lack--"the holy castration, the split subject, the death drive, the strange culture of death." Desire from that perspective is a bridge between subject and object: "the subject of desire cannot but be split, and the object lost in advance."

Over against this psychoanalytic-official concept of desire, Deleuze places his idea that "desire is a process. On this account desire does not set up "lack" as its mode and does not seek an object to fill that lack. Deleuze characterize desire as you already have it, but you have to construct it. It is Nietzsche's "will to power."