The Anti-Oedipus Papers

Notes and journal entries document Guattari and Deleuze''s collaboration on their 1972 book Anti-Oedipus. <"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." 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.

About the author

Félix Guattari (1930–1992), post-'68 French psychoanalyst and philosopher, is the author of Anti-Oedipus (with Gilles Deleuze), and a number of books published by Semiotext(e), including The Anti-Oedipus Papers, Chaosophy, and Soft Subversions.

Product details

• Authors: Felix Guattari, Félix Guattari, Felix/ Nadaud Guattari, F'Lix Guattari, Stephane Nadaud
• Assisted by: Stephane Nadaud (Editor), Stéphane Nadaud (Editor), St'phane Nadaud (Editor), Kelina Gotman (Translation), Kélina Gotman (Translation), K'Lina Gotman (Translation)
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2006
• EAN: 9781584350316
• ISBN: 978-1-58435-031-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents; Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents; Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents; The Anti-×dipus Papers
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Social sciences, law, business; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis