Deleuze, Leibniz, Vinculum

Deleuze proposes that one of the virtues of his interpretation of Leibniz' Monad as a Fold is its clarification of one of the features of the Monad--the Vinculum. The function of the latter for Leibniz is analogous to that of the Pineal Gland is for Descartes, i. e. as a mediator of a dualistic structure. Because of its topological characteristics, the Fold illustrates how the Vinculum unifies the interiority and the exteriority of a Monad. However, as previously argued here, the Fold is an hypostasization of two more fundamental processes--Enfolding and Unfolding--the distinction between which is not reducible to a topographical feature. Hence, despite Deleuze's effort, as a reconciliation of a posited fundamental dichotomy, the Vinculum is an ineffective as is the Pineal Gland.