Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia [Paperback]

An "introduction to the nonfascist life" (Michel Foucault, from the Preface)

When it first appeared in France,Anti-Oedipuswas hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set forth the following theory: Western society's innate herd instinct has allowed the government, the media, and even the principles of economics to take advantage of each person's unwillingness to be cut off from the group. What's more, those who suffer from mental disorders may not be insane, but could be individuals in the purest sense, because they are by nature isolated from society. More than twenty-five years after its original publication,Anti-Oedipusstill stands as a controversial contribution to a much-needed dialogue on the nature of free thinking.Prefaceby Michel Foucault
Introductionby Mark Seem

1. THE DESIRING-MACHINES

1. Desiring-Production

The schizo's stroll ♦ Nature and industry ♦ The process ♦ Desiring-machine, partial objects and flows: and . . . and . . . ♦ The first synthesis: the connective synthesis or production of production ♦ The production of the body without organs ♦

2. The Body Without Organs

Abti-production ♦ Repulsion and the paranoiac machine ♦ Desiring-production and social production: how anti-production appropriates the productive forces ♦ Appropriation or attraction, and the miraculating-machine—The second synthesis: the disjunctive synthesis or production of recording ♦ Either . . . or . . . ♦ The schizophrenic genealogy ♦

3. The Subject and Enjoyment

The celibate machine ♦ The third synthesis: the conjunctive synthesis or production of consumption-consummation ♦ So it's . . . ♦ Matter, egg, and intensities: I feel &diamsl£§