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Anti-Oedipus

Anti-Oedipus
Anti-Oedipus (French edition).jpg
Cover of the first edition
Authors Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Original title Capitalisme et schizophrénie.
L'anti-Œdipe
Translator Robert Hurley
Mark Seem
Helen R. Lane
Country France
Language French
Subject Psychoanalysis
Published
  • 1972 (Les Éditions de Minuit, in French)
  • 1977 (Viking Penguin, in English)
Media type Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages 494 (French edition)
400 (University of Minnesota Press edition)
ISBN (University of Minnesota Press edition)
Followed by Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature (1975)

Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (French: Capitalisme et schizophrénie. L'anti-Œdipe) is a 1972 book by French authors Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, respectively a philosopher and a psychoanalyst. It is the first volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, the second being A Thousand Plateaus (1980).

Deleuze and Guattari analyse the relationship of desire to reality and to capitalist society in particular; they address human psychology, economics, society, and history. They outline a "materialist psychiatry" modeled on the unconscious in its relationship with society and its productive processes, introduce the concept of "desiring-production" (which inter-relates "desiring machines" and a "body without organs"), offer a critique of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis that focuses on its theory of the Oedipus complex, and re-write Karl Marx's materialist account of the history of society's modes of production as a development through "primitive," "despotic," and "capitalist" societies, and detail their different organisations of production, "inscription" (which corresponds to Marx's "distribution" and "exchange"), and consumption. Additionally, they develop a critical practice that they call "schizoanalysis."


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