It sets out to explore a transcendental unconscious, rather than a metaphysical one; an unconscious that is material rather than ideological; schizophrenic rather than Oedipal; nonfigurative rather than imaginary; real rather than symbolic; machinic rather than structural an unconscious, finally, that is molecu lar, microphysical, and micrological rather than molar or gregarious; productive rather than expressive.