Anti-Oedipus
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Cover of the first edition
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| Authors | Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari |
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| Original title | Capitalisme et schizophrénie. L'anti-Œdipe |
| Translator | Robert Hurley Mark Seem Helen R. Lane |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Subject | Psychoanalysis |
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| 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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