Dramatisation in Deleuze and Kierkegaard: Two Formulas: The Stuttering of Language, the Question that Silences

This article examines dramatisation in Deleuze and Kierkegaard, encapsulated in the formulas ‘the stuttering of language’ and ‘the question that silences’. Deleuze’s differential approach actualises virtual ideas within a system of heterogenesis through the interplay between actual concepts and intensive dramas. Conversely, Kierkegaard’s existential approach, examined in The Concept of Anxiety, establishes an infinite loop between the psychological language of anxiety and the dogmatic language of hereditary sin, leading to a third existential language centred on the moment of appropriation. The article concludes by contrasting Deleuze’s focus on expression through internal differences with Kierkegaard’s emphasis on making an existential choice.