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Anti-Oedipus
1972 book by Deleuze and Guattari
Anti-Oedipus
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (French: Capitalisme et schizophrénie. L'anti-Œdipe) is a 1972 book by French authors Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, the former a philosopher and the latter a psychoanalyst. It is the first volume of their collaborative work Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972), the second being A Thousand Plateaus (1980). In the book, Deleuze and Guattari critique contemporary French uses of psychoanalysis and historical materialism by repurposing their concepts in the development of schizoanalysis, a loose critical practice initiated from the standpoint of schizophrenia and psychosis as well as from the social progress that capitalism has spurred. Schizoanalysis is described as a "materialist psychiatry" modeled on the unconscious regarded as an aggregate of productive processes of desire, incorporating their concept of desiring-production which interrelates desiring-machines and bodies without organs, to detail their different organizations of social production...
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