Name: Anti-Oedipus
ISBN: 9781350251984

Anti-Oedipus

A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and other interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture. "An important text in the rethinking of sexuality and sexual politics spurred by the feminist and gay liberation movements".--Margaret Cerullo, Hampshire College.

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maxbendickOct 2023

Definitely Guattari! Anti-Oedipus, which he wrote with Deleuze, is a trip and really wonderful. That's actually how I came across Reich.

Guattari is interesting for pioneering schizoanalysis at the La Borde clinic. He's also one of the most confusing writers I've ever come across, so I recommend the books cowritten with Deleuze over his solo stuff. He's got some whimsy to him just like Reich does.

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s_kilkMay 2018

I'm currently picking my way through Deleuze & Guattari's "Anti-Oedipus". It's slow going, but I think this one's given me the most material to reflect on out of any book I've read so far.

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jaylittDec 2015

"Debt: The First 5000 Years" David Graeber

"Kokoro" Natsume Soseki

"The Politics of Dialogical Imagination" Hirano Katsuya

"History and Repetition" Karatani Kojin

"The Structure of World History" Karatani Kojin

"Anti-Oedipus" Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari

"Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors" Nicholas Wade

"Capital, Volume I" Karl Marx

These books have been the most informative and thought-provoking for me this year.

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sedachvJan 2011

Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus. It changed the way I think about sanity and insanity, my model of the mind and motivational forces, the "big-picture" view of economics, how government works, how psychiatry works, and the way media affects us.

IMO it's treatment of desire (from a negative (lack) to a positive (thought production machine); relationship of desired object to its platonic object desire; how desire is generated) is a great framework for advertising and product development.

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The_BladeJul 2026

it is fun to get a reminder not regretting being obsessed with Ayn at 18 alongside my duct-taped copy of Foucault's Pendulum (note: the actual pendulum is at Musée des Arts et Métiers which was by far my favorite such place after a couple multiday trips to Paris). i still feel The Fountainhead is pretty far from Atlas Shrugged

Since this morning I happened to grab Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by DeLeuze & Guattari and inside (17 years ago, with a Pilot v5) i wrote:

"I have a feeling this needs to be revisited after another 30 years of production, process and consumption"

well, that time is now and AI is the body without organs du jour

(i am a weirdo really enjoying this thread of conversation right now)

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Der_EinzigeNov 2024

You really should try reading them. I am not even scratching the surface. Just open up a book called “anti-oedipus” or “A Thousand Plateus” by Deleuze and Guattari.

It’s all full of shit. The moment that you start with Freud (and all of these figures implicitly assume he’s right as they do for Marx) you’ve become intellectually bankrupt.

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