Deleuze, Difference, Expression

Some of the main themes of Difference and Repetition are taken up, in different terms, in Deleuze's contemporaneous book on Spinoza. The concept of intensive difference that is central to the former appears in the latter as that of immanent multiplicity, which is the structure of Spinoza's Pantheism, i. e. God is both One and Many. For Deleuze, the process in Spinoza's system that is analogous to Difference is Expression, e. g. God expresses himself in a diversity of attributes and of modes. However, Deleuze's analysis of Expression neglects one of its significant features--that it entails an extending beyond itself, as is most evident when it communicates its content--which is eventually re-interiorized upon completion of its movement. So, the immanent multiplicity that Deleuze finds in Expression presupposes a transcending beyond unity, of which it is the product.