{"id":238988,"date":"2025-02-02T01:03:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T07:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindseyemag.com\/magazine\/?p=238988"},"modified":"2026-04-29T04:16:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:16:54","slug":"anti-oedipus-capitalism-and-schizophrenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindseyemag.com\/magazine\/anti-oedipus-capitalism-and-schizophrenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia<\/b><\/i>\u00a0(French<\/a>:\u00a0Capitalisme et schizophr\u00e9nie. L’anti-\u0152dipe<\/i>) is a 1972 book by French authors\u00a0Gilles Deleuze<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0F\u00e9lix Guattari<\/a>, the former a philosopher and the latter a psychoanalyst. It is the first volume of their collaborative work\u00a0Capitalism and Schizophrenia<\/a><\/i>, the second being\u00a0A Thousand Plateaus<\/a><\/i>\u00a0(1980).<\/p>\n

In the book,\u00a0Deleuze<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Guattari<\/a>\u00a0developed the concepts and theories in\u00a0schizoanalysis<\/a>, a loose critical practice initiated from the standpoint of\u00a0schizophrenia<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0psychosis<\/a>\u00a0as well as from the social progress that\u00a0capitalism<\/a>\u00a0has spurred. They refer to psychoanalysis, economics, the creative arts, literature, anthropology and history in engagement with these concepts.[<\/span>1]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Contrary to contemporary French uses of the ideas of\u00a0Sigmund Freud<\/a>, they outlined a “materialist<\/a>\u00a0psychiatry” modeled on the\u00a0unconscious<\/a>\u00a0regarded as an aggregate of productive processes of desire, incorporating their concept of\u00a0desiring-production<\/a>\u00a0which interrelates desiring-machines and\u00a0bodies without organs<\/a>, and repurpose\u00a0Karl Marx<\/a>‘s\u00a0historical materialism<\/a>\u00a0to detail their different organizations of social production, “recording surfaces”, coding, territorialization and the act of “inscription”.\u00a0Friedrich Nietzsche<\/a>‘s ideas of the\u00a0will to power<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0eternal recurrence<\/a>\u00a0also have roles in how Deleuze and Guattari describe schizophrenia; the book extends from much of Deleuze’s prior thinking in\u00a0Difference and Repetition<\/a><\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0The Logic of Sense<\/a><\/i>\u00a0that utilized Nietzsche’s ideas to explore a radical conception of\u00a0becoming<\/a>.<\/p>\n