Deleuze and Guattari

Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis by Eugene W. Holland

Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis Eugene W. Holland ebook
ISBN: 0415113199, 9780415113199
Format: pdf
Page: 174
Publisher: Routledge

[xxx] See the first part of Anti-Oedipus and also the second part of Eugene Holland's excellent Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis. And a couple of years later they come out with a text called Anti-Oedipus. The book, in large part, is written against A radical critique of capital cannot therefore be accomplished by psychoanalysis, but requires a schizoanalysis “to overturn the theater of representation into the order of desiring-production” (Deleuze 1983b, 271). It was in the aftermath of 1968 that Guattari met Gilles Deleuze at the University of Vincennes and began to lay the ground-work for the soon to be infamous Anti-Oedipus (1972), which Michel Foucault described as "an introduction to the non-fascist life" in his preface to the book. This shift away from culture and, in the case of Deleuze and Guattari, to the social infrastructure (an anti-cultural critique), can be seen as a response to the inadequacy, even the impotence, of cultural critique in the face of the "massive Being of capital" itself. Guattari is best known for his intellectual collaborations with Gilles Deleuze, most notably Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980) in which they developed schizoanalysis. The dissolution of the subject and its implications for society is the theme of Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, which Deleuze published with Félix Guattari in 1972 (English 1983). They meet in 1969, they start writing, thinking, brainstorming. [22] Their revolutionary project is articulated in their "Introduction to Schizoanalysis" in Anti-Oedipus. Deleuze had heard of Guattari, and he pursued him in a sense. This whole Tropicalia/Neo-Romantic thing has something in common with the idea of Schizo-analysis put forward by Deleuze and Guattari in their books Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, I haven't read the latter. [3] While postmodernism by definition eschews ..