ZIZEK:
It is difficult to imagine a notion more obviously out of sync with
contemporary sensibility. What seems to offer itself as a no less obvious
replacement for ‘mole’ is, of course, ‘rhizome’, a complex network of
interconnections without a central controlling agency. However, in my
Stalinist mind, the fact that Deleuze borrowed this term from Jung 7 is not
a mere insignificant accident – it points towards a deeper link (no
wonder that, in his early text on Sacher-Masoch [1961], Deleuze
extensively relies on Jung in his critique of Freud).
7‘Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its
true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome … What we see is the
blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains’ (C. G. Jung, Memories,
Dreams, Reflections, ed. A. Jaffé [New York: Vintage Books, 1965], 4).