Deleuze, Fold, Monad, Nomad

While Deleuze initially derives his image of Subjectivity as a 'Fold' from Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, his full development of it comes in its application to Leibniz' Monad. As he shows in his book on Leibniz, a Fold consists in enfoldings and unfoldings, e. g. perceptions and actions, respectively, though, an unfolding is a transition to an eventual refolding. Hence, he demonstrates that, for Leibniz, at least, these processes are ultimately internal to a Monad. However, the application of the pattern to his own concept of Subjectivity remains uncertain. For, while elsewhere, his other predominant image of Subjectivity, the 'Nomad', seems implicated in a process of social unfolding, in his book on Leibniz, he presents it as a special case of Monad, i. e. one whose unfolding is only a transition to an eventual refolding. On the other hand, he might define 'Nomad' as the 'Repetition of a Monad', and on the basis of Difference and Repetition, assert that it, therefore, is the primary principle of the two. In either case, though, his analysis of Fold reveals that fundamental to both Monad and Nomad are the processes of Enfolding and Unfolding, the Difference between which each suppresses.