The Anti-Oedipus Papers (Semiotext
Pages: 384
|Published: 1 Jan 2004
Description
"The unconscious is not a theatre, but a factory," wrote Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in Anti-Oedipus (1972), 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. 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 (1969-1973) 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 (created in the 1950s).
