… the negative task of undoing reterritorialisation must always be accompanied by the positive task of understanding how and why those reterritorialisations were constructed in the first place. Deleuze and Guattari place a great premium on self-knowledge – but rather than asking us to get to know our inner self, they require us to come to know how that inner self was constituted.

Ian Buchanan, Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus