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Laotzu’s Power Image in the Viewpoint of Deleuze Sa, Kong-Il The aim of this paper is to study Laotzu’s Power Image in the viewpoint of Deleuze. Deleuze stresses the rhizomatic process of deterritorialization, which deconstructs the molar organization that codify rules and systems. This rhizomatic process rejects the power that control subjects oppressively. In this sense, Deleuze’s philosophy is related to the politics of creativity. This politics is comparable to the Taoist notion of we-wei, which means letting Nature take its own course. Like this, the politics dismantles the institutional and hierarchical power and embodies the positive and becoming power which flies the danger of state apparatus. That is the nomad politics or the politics of Laotzu’s Master. Deleuze’s notion of rhizome, the line of flight, and the body of without organs is comparable to the Taoist notion of water, Tao, and wu-wei respectively. Also, the notion of Master in Taoism is similar to Deleuze's notion of nomadic subject. Especially, Master positively and creatively embodies the politics of creation Deleuze stresses. In this sense, the power and politics Deleuze describes, or the nomad politics can be called Master‘s politics. Deleuze and Laotzu’s image of power similarly rejects a codification of the world according to orthodox categories and classification.