Chaosophy
Texts and Interviews 1972–1977
$39.38
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
14 November 2008
Summary
Chaosophy is an introduction to Felix Guattari’s groundbreaking theories of “schizo-analysis”—a process meant to replace Freudian interpretation with a more pragmatic, experimental, and collective approach rooted in reality.
Unlike Freud, who utilized neuroses as his working model, Guattari adopted the model of schizophrenia—which he believed to be an extreme mental state induced by the capitalist system itself, and one that enforces neurosis as a way of maintaining normality. Guattar…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781584350606 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1584350601 |
| Author: | Félix Guattari, Sylvère Lotringer, François Dosse |
| Publisher: | Autonomedia |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 14 November 2008 |
| Weight: | 499g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents |
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Critics Review
This book can not only be seen to serve as a concise introduction to Guattari’s style of thought, but also as a valuable addition to the Continental canon as a snapshot in the direction of French thought after the turbulence of May ‘68.
– Andrew Aitken * Metapsychology *About The Author
Félix Guattari
Felix Guattari (1930-1992) was a post-‘68 French psychoanalyst and philosopher. He is the author of Anti-Oedipus (with Gilles Deleuze) and several other books, including The Anti-Oedipus Papers, Chaosophy, and Soft Subversions.
Sylv re Lotringer is Jean Baudrillard Chair at the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and Professor Emeritus of French literature and philosophy at Columbia University.
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