Pierre-Félix Guattari | |
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Born |
Villeneuve-les-Sablons, Oise, France |
April 30, 1930
Died | August 29, 1992 La Borde clinic, Cour-Cheverny, France |
(aged 62)
Alma mater | University of Paris |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western Philosophy |
School | Psychoanalysis, postmodernism |
Institutions | University of Paris VIII |
Main interests
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Psychoanalysis, politics, ecology, semiotics |
Notable ideas
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Assemblage, desiring machine, deterritorialization, ecosophy, schizoanalysis |
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Pierre-Félix Guattari (French: [ɡwataʁi] (listen) ; April 30, 1930 – August 29, 1992) was a French psychotherapist, philosopher, semiologist, and activist. He founded both schizoanalysis and ecosophy, and is best known for his intellectual collaborations with Gilles Deleuze, most notably Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980), the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia.
Guattari was born in Villeneuve-les-Sablons, a working-class suburb of north-west Paris, France. He trained under (and was analysed by) the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan in the early 1950s. Subsequently, he worked (until his death from a heart attack in 1992) at the experimental psychiatric clinic of La Borde under the direction of Lacan's pupil, the psychiatrist Jean Oury. La Borde was a venue for conversation among many students of philosophy, psychology, ethnology, and social work.