The fifth and sixth principles of the rhizomeare those of "cartography" and "decalcomania". These principles state that the rhizome is not a tracing mechanism, but is a map with multiple entry points. Psychoanalysis, for example, is a representative tracing of the subconscious that exists prior to it's tracing. Tracing is not creating new, it is representing old - following lines that are already there. Mapping, on the other hand, "constructs the unconscious "by orientation " toward an experimentation of contact with the real."That is, maps can exist as themselves without need for anything outside of the map to exist while tracings can only exists as representations. (DELEUZE& GUATTARI, 12) To summarise the key aspects of the rhizome as described above, Deleuze and Guattari state that, "The rhizome is an accentered, nonhierarchical, nonsignifying system without a General and without an organizing memory or central automation, defined solely by a circulation of states."(DELEUZE & GUATTARI, 21)
