Anti-Oedipus

Produktbeschreibung

An "introduction to the nonfascist life" (Michel Foucault, from the Preface)

When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set forth the following theory: Western society's innate herd instinct has allowed the government, the media, and even the principles of economics to take advantage of each person's unwillingness to be cut off from the group. What's more, those who suffer from mental disorders may not be insane, but could be individuals in the purest sense, because they are by nature isolated from society. More than twenty-five years after its original publication, Anti-Oedipus still stands as a controversial contribution to a much-needed dialogue on the nature of free thinking. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface by Michel Foucault
Introduction by Mark Seem

1. THE DESIRING-MACHINES

1. Desiring-Production

The schizo's stroll âÖ¦ Nature and industry âÖ¦ The process âÖ¦ Desiring-machine,
partial objects and flows: and . . . and . . . âÖ¦ The first synthesis: the
connective synthesis or production of production âÖ¦ The production of the body
without organs âÖ¦

2. The Body Without Organs

Abti-production âÖ¦ Repulsion and the paranoiac machine âÖ¦ Desiring-production and
social production: how anti-production appropriates the productive forces âÖ¦
Appropriation or attraction, and the miraculating-machine—The second synthesis:
the disjunctive synthesis or production of recording âÖ¦ Either . . . or . . . âÖ¦
The schizophrenic genealogy âÖ¦

3. The Subject and Enjoyment

The celibate machine âÖ¦ The third synthesis: the conjunctive synthesis or
production of consumption-consummation âÖ¦ So it's . . . âÖ¦ Matter, egg, and
intensities: I feel âÖ¦ The names in history âÖ¦

4. A Materialist Psychiatry

The unconscious and the category of production âÖ¦ Theater or factory? âÖ¦ The
process as production process âÖ¦ The idealist conception of desire as lack
(fantasy) âÖ¦ The real and desiring-production: the passive syntheses âÖ¦ One and
the same production, social and desiring âÖ¦ The reality of the group fantasy âÖ¦
The differences in regime between desiring-production and social production âÖ¦
The socius and the body without organs âÖ¦ Capitalism, and schizophrenia as its
limit (the counteracted tendency) âÖ¦ Neurosis, psychosis, and perversion âÖ¦

5. The Machines

Desiring-machines are machines, no metaphor âÖ¦ The first mode of break: flows and
selection from flows âÖ¦ The second mode: chains or codes, and detachments from
them âÖ¦ The third mode: subject and residue âÖ¦

6. The Whole and Its Parts

The status of multiplicities âÖ¦ The partial objects âÖ¦ The critique of Oedipus,
the Oedipal mystification âÖ¦ Already the child . . . âÖ¦ The orphan-conscious âÖ¦
What is wrong with psychoanalysis? âÖ¦

2. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND FAMILIALISM: THE HOLY FAMILY

1. The Imperialism of Oedipus

Its modes âÖ¦ The Oedipal turning-point in psychoanalysis âÖ¦ Desiring-production
and representation âÖ¦ The abandonment of the desiring-machines âÖ¦

2. Three texts of Freud

Oedipalization âÖ¦ The flattening-out of Judge Schreber's delirium âÖ¦ How
pyschoanalysis is still pious âÖ¦ The ideology of lack: castration âÖ¦ Every fantasy
is collective âÖ¦ The libido as flow âÖ¦ The rebellion of the flows âÖ¦

3. The Connective Synthesis of Production

Its two uses, global and specific, partial and non-specific âÖ¦ The family and the
couple, filiation and alliance: triangulation âÖ¦ The triangulation's cause âÖ¦ The
first paralogism of psychoanalysis: extrapolation âÖ¦ The transcendent use and the
immanent use âÖ¦

4. The Disjunctive Synthesis of Recording

Its two uses, exclusive and restrictive, inclusive, and nonrestrictive âÖ¦ The
inclusive disjunctions: genealogy âÖ¦ The exclusive differentiations and the
nondifferentiated âÖ¦ The second paralogism of psychoanalysis: the Oedipal
double-bind âÖ¦ Oedipus wins at every turn âÖ¦ Does the borderline pass between the
Symbolic and the Imaginary?

5. The Conjunctive Synthesis of Consumption-Consummation

Its two uses, segregative and biunivocal, nomadic and polyvocal âÖ¦ The body
without organs and intensities âÖ¦ Voyages, passages: I am becoming âÖ¦ Every
delirium is social, historical and political âÖ¦ Races âÖ¦ The meaning of
identification âÖ¦ How psychoanalysis suppresses sociopolitical content âÖ¦ An
unrepentant familialism âÖ¦ The family and the social field âÖ¦ Desiring-production
and the investment of social production âÖ¦ From childhood âÖ¦ The third paralogism
of psychoanalysis: Oedipus as a biunivocal "application" âÖ¦ The disgrace of
psychoanalysis with regard to history âÖ¦ Desire and the infrastructure âÖ¦
Segregation and nomadism âÖ¦

6. A Recapitulation of the Three Syntheses

Oedipus would make fools of us all âÖ¦ Oedipus and "belief" âÖ¦ Meaning is use âÖ¦ The
immanent criteria of desiring-production âÖ¦ Desire knows nothing of the law,
lack, and the signifier âÖ¦ "Were you born Hamlet . . . ? âÖ¦

7. Social Repression and Psychic Repression

The law âÖ¦ The fourth paralogism of psychoanalysis: the displacement, or the
disfiguration of the repressed âÖ¦ Desire is revolutionary âÖ¦ The delegated agent
of psychic repression âÖ¦ It is not psychoanalysis that invents Oedipus âÖ¦

8. Neurosis and Psychosis

Reality âÖ¦ The inverse relation âÖ¦ "Undecidable" Oedipus: resonance âÖ¦ The meaning
of actual factors âÖ¦ The fifth paralogism of psychoanalysis: the afterward âÖ¦ The
actuality of desiring-production âÖ¦

9. The Process

Leaving âÖ¦ The painter Turner âÖ¦ The interruptions of the process: neurosis,
psychosis, and perversion âÖ¦ The movement of deterritorialization and
territorialities âÖ¦

3. SAVAGES, BARBARIANS, CIVILIZED MEN

1. The Inscribing Socius

The recording process âÖ¦ In what sense capitalism is universal âÖ¦ The social
machine âÖ¦ The problem of the socius, coding the flows âÖ¦ Not exchanging, but
marking and being marked âÖ¦ The investment and the disinvestment of organs âÖ¦
Curelty: creating a memory for man âÖ¦

2. The Primitive Territorial Machine

The full body of the earth âÖ¦ Filiation and alliance: their irreducibility âÖ¦ The
village pervert and local groups âÖ¦ Filiative stock and blocks of alliance debt âÖ¦
Functional disequilibrium: surplus value of code âÖ¦ It only works by breaking
down âÖ¦ The segmentary machine âÖ¦ The great fear of decoded flows âÖ¦ Death which
rises from within, but comes from without âÖ¦

3. The Problem of Oedipus

Incest âÖ¦ The inclusive disjunctions on the full body of the earth âÖ¦ From
intensities to extension: the sign âÖ¦ In what sense incest is impossible âÖ¦ The
limit âÖ¦ The conditions of coding âÖ¦ The in-depth elements of representation: the
repressed representative, the repressing representation, the displaced
represented âÖ¦

4. Psychoanalysis and Ethnology

Continuation of the Oedipal problem âÖ¦ A process of treatment in Africa âÖ¦ The
conditions of Oedipus and colonization âÖ¦ Oedipus and ethnocide âÖ¦ Those who
oedipalize don't know what they're doing âÖ¦ On what is psychic repression brought
to bear? âÖ¦ Culturalists and universalists: their common postulates âÖ¦ In what
sense Oedipus is indeed universal: the five meanings of limit, Oedipus as one of
them âÖ¦ Use, or functionalism in ethnology âÖ¦ The desiring-machines do not mean
anything âÖ¦ Molar and molecular âÖ¦

5. Territorial Representation

Its surface elements âÖ¦ Debts and exchange âÖ¦ The five postulates of the
exchangist conception âÖ¦ Voice, graphism, and eye: the theater of cruelty âÖ¦
Nietzsche âÖ¦ The death of the territorial system âÖ¦

6. The Barbarian Despotic Machine

The full body of the despot âÖ¦ New alliance and direct filiation âÖ¦ The paranoiac
âÖ¦ Asiatic production âÖ¦ The bricks âÖ¦ The mystifications of the State âÖ¦ Despotic
deterritorialization and the infinite debt âÖ¦ Overcoding the flows âÖ¦

7. Barbarian or Imperial Representation

Its elements âÖ¦ Incest and overcoding âÖ¦ The in-depth elements and the migration
of Oedipus: incest becomes possible âÖ¦ The surface elements, the new
voice-graphism relationship âÖ¦ The transcendent object from on high âÖ¦ The
signifier as the deterritorialized sign âÖ¦ The despotic signifier, and the
signifieds of incest âÖ¦ Terror, the law âÖ¦ The form of the infinite debt: latency,
vengeance, and ressentiment âÖ¦ This is still not Oedipus . . . âÖ¦

8. The Urstaat

A single State? âÖ¦ The State as a category âÖ¦ Beginning and origin âÖ¦ The evolution
of the State: becoming-concrete and becoming-immanent âÖ¦

9. The Civilized Capitalist Machine

The full body of money-capital âÖ¦ Decoding and the conjunction of decoded flows âÖ¦
Cynicism âÖ¦ Filiative capital and alliance capital âÖ¦ The transformation of
surplus value of code into a surplus value of flux âÖ¦ The two forms of money, the
two inscriptions âÖ¦ The falling tendency âÖ¦ Capitalism and deterritorialization âÖ¦
Human surplus value and machinic surplus value âÖ¦ Anti-production âÖ¦ The various
aspects of the capitalist immanence âÖ¦ The flows âÖ¦

10. Capitalist Representation

Its elements âÖ¦ The figures or schizzes-flows âÖ¦ The two meanings of the
schiz-flow: capitalism and schizophrenia âÖ¦ The difference between a code and an
axiomatic âÖ¦ The capitalist State, its relationship with the Urstaat âÖ¦ The class
âÖ¦ Class bipolarity âÖ¦ Desire and interest âÖ¦ Capitalist deterritorialization and
re-territorializations: their relationship, and the law of the falling tendency
âÖ¦ The two poles of the axiomatic: the despotic signifier and the schizophrenic
figure, paranoia and schizophrenia âÖ¦ A recapitulation of the three great social
machines: the territorial, the despotic, and the capitalist (coding, overcoding,
decoding) âÖ¦

11. Oedipus at Last

Application âÖ¦ Social reproduction and human reproduction âÖ¦ The two orders of
images âÖ¦ Oedipus and its limits âÖ¦ Oedipus and the recapitulation of the three
states âÖ¦ The despotic symbol and capitalist images âÖ¦ Bad conscience âÖ¦ Adam Smith
and Freud âÖ¦

4. INTRODUCTIONTO SCHIZOANALYSIS

1. The Social Field

Father and child âÖ¦ Oedipus, a father's idea âÖ¦ The unconscious as a cycle âÖ¦ The
primacy of the social investment: its two poles, paranoia and schizophrenia âÖ¦
Molar and molecular âÖ¦

2. The Molecular Unconscious

Desire and machine âÖ¦ Beyond vitalism and mechanism âÖ¦ The two states of the
machine âÖ¦ Molecular functionalism âÖ¦ The syntheses âÖ¦ The libido, the large
aggregates and the micro-multiplicities âÖ¦ The gigantism and the dwarfism of
desire âÖ¦ The nonhuman sex: not one, not two, but n sexes âÖ¦

3. Psychoanalysis and Capitalism

Representation âÖ¦ Representation and production âÖ¦ Against myth and tragedy âÖ¦ The
ambiguous attitude of psychoanalysis with regard to myth and tragedy âÖ¦ In what
sense psychoanalysis fractures representation, in what sense it restores
representation âÖ¦ The requirements of capitalism âÖ¦ Mythic, tragic, and
psychoanalytic representation âÖ¦ The theater âÖ¦ Subjective representation and
structural representation âÖ¦ Structuralism, familialism, and the cult of lack âÖ¦
The destructive task of schizoanalysis, cleansing the unconscious: a malevolent
activity âÖ¦ Deterritorialization and re-territorialization: their relationship,
and dreams âÖ¦ The machinic indices âÖ¦ Politicization: social alienation and mental
alienation âÖ¦ Artifice and process, old earths and the new earth âÖ¦

4. The First Positive Task of Schizoanalysis

Desiring-production and its machines âÖ¦ The status of partial objects âÖ¦ The
passive syntheses âÖ¦ The status of the body without organs âÖ¦ The signifying chain
and codes âÖ¦ The body without organs, death, and desire âÖ¦ Schizophrenizing death
âÖ¦ The strange death cult in psychoanalysis: the pseudo-instinct âÖ¦ The problem of
affinities between the molar and the molecular âÖ¦ The mechanic's task of
schizoanalysis âÖ¦

5. The Second Positive Task

Social production and its machines âÖ¦ The theory of the two poles âÖ¦ The first
thesis: every investment is molar and social âÖ¦ Gregariousness, selection, and
the form of gregariousness âÖ¦ The second thesis: distinguish in social
investments the preconscious investment of class or interest, from the
unconscious libidinal investment of desire or group âÖ¦ The nature of this
libidinal investment of the social field âÖ¦ The two groups âÖ¦ The role of
sexuality, the "sexual revolution" âÖ¦ The third thesis: the libidinal invesment
of the social field is primary in relation to the familial investments âÖ¦ The
theory of "maids" in Freud, Oedipus and universal familialism âÖ¦ The poverty of
psychoanalysis: 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 âÖ¦ Even antipsychiatry . . . âÖ¦ What is the
schizophrenic sick from? âÖ¦ The fourth thesis: the two poles of the libidinal
social investment âÖ¦ Art and science âÖ¦ The task of schizoanalysis in relation to
the revolutionary movements.

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Autoreninfo

Gilles Deleuze was a prolific French philosopher and author of 25 books. A self-described "pure metaphysician," he was a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris VIII and was known for a style that forced readers to reevaluate their philosophical assumptions. Deleuze, along with close friend and colleague Feliz Guattari, wrote a two-volume work on anti-psychoanalytic social philosophy called Capitalism and Schizophrenia. The first volume, Anti-Oedipus, is their best-known work.

Felix Guattari was a French psychiatrist and philosopher. He founded the Society for Institutional Psychotherapy in 1965 and the Centre for Institutional Studies and Research in 1970. Trained as a psychoanalyst, he, along with close friend and colleague Gilles Deleuze, were instrumental figures in the anti-psychiatry movement, which challenged established viewpoints in psychoanalysis, philosophy, and sociology. The two wrote a two-volume work on anti-psychoanalytic social philosophy called Capitalism and Schizophrenia. The first volume, Anti-Oedipus, is their best-known work.

Michel Foucault, one of the leading philosophical thinkers of the 20th century, was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lectured in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Français in Hamburg, Germany and at the Institut de Philosophie at the Faculté des Lettres in the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France; and wrote frequently for French newspapers and reviews. His influence on generations of thinkers in the areas of sociology, queer theory, cultural studies, and critical thinking are not to be underestimated. Among his many books were the Foucault Reader, Society Must Be Defended, and Great Ideas.

At the time of his death in June 1984, he held a chair at France's most prestigious institutions, the Collège de France. Foucault was the first public figure in France to die from HIV/AIDS.

Mark Seem is a philosophical writer and translator. His work includes Anti-Oedipus, the first of the two-volume work Capitalism and Schizophrenia.

Robert Hurley is a translator whose credits include translating the work of French philosophers Michael Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Clastres, and Georges Bataille.