Deleuze and Limits

Prof. Ulmer's narrative of going to Spain in 1966 and encountering one's limits so as to "become what you are" reminds me very much of Gilles Deleuze's discussion of territorializations in the link below. It is particularly useful (to me/for me) in that he approaches "limits" and "territories" in terms of encounters, relations, sense/feeling, language. Later in this documentary (which is hours and hours and hours long), he returns to this concept of "reaching one's limits" when considering the "alcoholic." The alcoholic, he notes, has a deeply entrenched sense of his/her "limits." The last drink of the day is the reaching of an alcoholic's limit, and yet this "last drink" is only the "penultimate" drink as the alcoholic returns to (re)approach the same limit the following day. This concept (and practice) of recursively returning to reach one's limits as the process in which a subject becomes constituted as such (as what and who it is, ontologically) fascinates me.

Deleuze and Limits