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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia Paperback – December 15, 1983

by Gilles Deleuze (Author), Felix Guattari (Contributor)

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Analyzes the expression and repression of desire in Western culture and tells how to avoid fascism in one's life

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This is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and others interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Univ Of Minnesota Press; 58083rd edition (December 15, 1983)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0816612250
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0816612253
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.27 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches

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Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) was professor of philosophy at the University of Paris, Vincennes–St. Denis. He coauthored Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus with Félix Guattari. These works, as well as Cinema 1, Cinema 2, The Fold, Proust and Signs, and others, are published in English by Minnesota.

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Nz

Essential reading for picking up pseudo-intellectual hipster girls in Brooklyn

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 17, 2023

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If you're looking to sleep with someone who doesn't shut the **** up about Foucault or something, this book will get you there. Just wave it around on the L train between 1st Ave and DeKalb and you're sure to attract the attention of someone with a trust fund who has a degree in liberal arts and shops at thrift stores. Good luck and have fun!

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Somewhere In Time

A hot mess - here is some Art for you!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 31, 2015

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As far as the order, it came in a timely fashion - although their are some minor typos in the press.

As far as the content of the book, I have mixed feelings - this book is a hot mess. The best thing anyone could say about it is what Foucault states in the preface, about the book being more a work of art than a great theoretical system (like Kant, or Hegel lets say). And I'll accept the book as that, just art. The book starts off very strong, but, once you realize the authors are basically saying the same thing ten different ways, it loses its magic.

The read itself can be difficult at times, but, it is very well paced, so that once you trudge through enough technical philosophy, things open up quite brilliantly - like having gotten through the forest into the open field. That feeling in-itself, ends up being a highlight of the book in a sense. The philosophy itself is messy, lacks focus towards the end, is packed far too much with neologisms, and in many ways ends up seeming unoriginal. The concept of a "Body Without Organs" aside - Essentially you have a Spinozist materialism that integrates itself with Freud, Marx, Nietzsche, and a bunch of others far too obscure for most readers to have any reference to. This is also a weakness of the text, as it is not very accessible (even to philosophers) in terms knowing whether the authors' interpretations of these other writers are actually spot on, or not. This makes critical analysis a daunting task, coupled with the neologisms, and messy layout of ideas.

Another critique is that (being someone who has worked extensively, and intimately with the mentally ill - most notably schizophrenics - for many years) I wonder about the depth of understanding of schizophrenia. Philosophy proper, yes - economics, sure - a properly thoughtful and empirical sense of schizophrenia? I am doubtful. Guattari, maybe - but I am very skeptical that Deleuze has any significant experience with schizophrenics, and in fact, in the text, most references to schizophrenia are from other peoples case notes/research - notably, the authors who themselves malign Freud. ... I also have a hard time getting past the vast amount of undue credit given to Oedipus as an institution, and deeply engrained unconscious pattern, social, and individual.

Still, if one approaches the book as a work of art, its fantastic, entertaining, and at times hilarious. All criticism aside, the book has a compelling sense of mystery that it instills, a wonderful aesthetic. This alone can bring me back to this book, for likely, the rest of my life. There are grand moments of detailed, original, philosophy (the Body Without Organs being a shining display), they are just, well, mixed in with a whole lot of other stuff that maybe the book could have done without.

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JG

A book by the elite, for the elite

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Let's face it: if you are reading D&G, you probably were privileged enough to receive the best education at the top schools and colleges (present company included). I am a mental health clinician that works with schizophrenics regularly. I am also sympathetic to the anti-psychiatry movement, but I prefer philosophy that is helpful for the patient or client with little to no education or resources. This book has little practical value. However, it is a good book to peruse while smoking cloves and stroking your facial scruff, expensive espresso in hand.

Don't get me wrong- some of the ideas are profound. A-O articulates the difference between desire as production and desire as aquisition. Since Plato, desire has been conceptualized as lack or need. The authors present desire as production beyond the dialectic of desire as lack (I create because I want to, not because I have to). Also, the authors propose the various ways desire is colonized, decoded, territorialized, deterritorialized in capitalist societies. I found this helpful in considering ways that many of us "buy into" the American dream, the obsession with health and wellness, the pursuit of happiness, and various ways of "meeting our needs."

But overall, the work lacks very few connections with experience. I believe that if the ideas were translated into experience, it might be more productive (pun itentional). And I am a fan of Deleuze's other works including Nietzsche and Philosophy and Difference and Repetition. In the latter, Deleuze has an excellent example of "swimming into a wave" to describe the process of learning. I think it's too bad that A-O lacks such beautiful, experiential sections. As for the latter sections of A-O in which the authors describe schizoanalysis, I am very skeptical. Resistance? Not really. I've seen schizophrenics bashing their heads against a mirror.

If you are looking for an adventure down the rabbit hole (full of word-play, obscure references, neoligisms, etc.), this is your book. If you are looking for philosophy that provides excellent insights on human experiences and living in the 20th/21st century, may I recommend Delueze's earlier work, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, Foucault, and Levinas.

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John R. Rutherford

I desire to read it again...... and will.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 17, 2014

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This is a work of profound genius. The reviews here who have taken it literally have missed the point (sadly). This is a book about desire and its flow, cosmically, socially, culturally, tribally, economically, humanly, individually. It includes elements of economics (capitalism, marx) or psychoanalytic concepts (schizophrenia, Oedipus) as models/codes, territories and flows thereof, as tools/structures off of which they bounce their ideas - perhaps a lens through which to view the highly abstract nature of the sub/unconscious and their theory of desire, if you prefer.

This book will change the way you think about the world - and agree or not with its thesis or commentaries, any book that does that deserves five full stars.

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Shipped on schedule and book is in great condition as expected. It's hard to read, but super interesting!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 17, 2021

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I am only half way through this book, and ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 17, 2014

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I am only half way through this book, and it has been superb.

Here is the quote that began to shift my conception of what psychoanalysis is:

"The real is not impossible; on the contrary, within the real everything is possible, everything becomes possible. Desire does not express a molar lack within the subject; rather, the molar organization deprives desire of its objective being"(37).

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Leslie Gardner

Mind blowing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 11, 2017

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Written with a medical doctor, Felix Guattari, this is a terrific and playful as well as powerful work describing what might be the drives and misaligned judgments of schizophrenia- and how it penetrates all our lives, as well as the lives and art work of (for example) of Kafka who they write about with refreshing insight. Inspiing for artists and film makers, as well as for novel-writing and treatment of patients in the contained environment of the analytic session. It was a bestseller in france when it first appeared -

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Avoid the kindle book at all costs.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 24, 2017

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Two stars given for the kindle version of this text. The kindle book is so badly formatted that it takes away any enjoyment one might have reading this text. Not content to tabulate the book so that pages and sentences are broken up so that the overall effect is higgeldy-piggeldy, it's full of spelling mistakes too.At £4 I would expect something more professional.

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