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The Anti-Oedipus Papers

Félix Guattari

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"The unconscious is not a theatre, but a factory," wrote Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in Anti-Oedipus , instigating one of the most daring intellectual adventures of the last half-century. Together, the well-known philosopher and the activist-psychiatrist were updating both psychoanalysis and Marxism in light of a more radical and -constructivist- vision of capitalism: -Capitalism is the exterior limit of all societies because it has no exterior limit itself. It works well as long as it keeps breaking down.-Few people at the time believed, as they wrote in the often-quoted opening sentence of Rhizome, that -the two of us wrote Anti-Oedipus together.- They added, -Since each of us was several, that became quite a crowd.- These notes, addressed to Deleuze by Guattari in preparation for Anti-Oedipus, and annotated by Deleuze, substantiate their claim, finally bringing out the factory behind the theatre. They reveal Guattari as an inventive, highly analytical, mathematically-minded -conceptor, - arguably one of the most prolific and enigmatic figures in philosophy and sociopolitical theory today. The Anti-Oedipus Papers are supplemented by substantial journal entries in which Guattari describes his turbulent relationship with his analyst and teacher Jacques Lacan, his apprehensions about the publication of Anti-Oedipus and accounts of his personal and professional life as a private analyst and codirector with Jean Oury of the experimental clinic Laborde .

Language: English

Pages: 437

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Release: March 03, 2006

ISBN: 1584350318

ISBN 13: 9781584350316

The Anti-Oedipus Papers

Félix Guattari

4/5 ( ratings)

"The unconscious is not a theatre, but a factory," wrote Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in Anti-Oedipus , instigating one of the most daring intellectual adventures of the last half-century. Together, the well-known philosopher and the activist-psychiatrist were updating both psychoanalysis and Marxism in light of a more radical and -constructivist- vision of capitalism: -Capitalism is the exterior limit of all societies because it has no exterior limit itself. It works well as long as it keeps breaking down.-Few people at the time believed, as they wrote in the often-quoted opening sentence of Rhizome, that -the two of us wrote Anti-Oedipus together.- They added, -Since each of us was several, that became quite a crowd.- These notes, addressed to Deleuze by Guattari in preparation for Anti-Oedipus, and annotated by Deleuze, substantiate their claim, finally bringing out the factory behind the theatre. They reveal Guattari as an inventive, highly analytical, mathematically-minded -conceptor, - arguably one of the most prolific and enigmatic figures in philosophy and sociopolitical theory today. The Anti-Oedipus Papers are supplemented by substantial journal entries in which Guattari describes his turbulent relationship with his analyst and teacher Jacques Lacan, his apprehensions about the publication of Anti-Oedipus and accounts of his personal and professional life as a private analyst and codirector with Jean Oury of the experimental clinic Laborde .

Language: English

Pages: 437

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Release: March 03, 2006

ISBN: 1584350318

ISBN 13: 9781584350316

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