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Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis Eugene W. Holland
Publisher: Routledge

Further, Seem writes [of Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis]: [“Introduction,” Anti-Oedipus, p. Schizophrenic as universal producer (7). Deleuze and Guattari in their Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus discuss that schizoanalysis seeks to destroy modern identities and to create new postmodern desiring subjects. It is well known that in the Anti-Oedipus Guattari and Deleuze invented 'schizoanalysis' as a critique of psychoanalysis (Deleuze and Guattari, 1983). Levi-Strauss's bricolage and schizophrenia—the schizo shows an indifference to the tools at hand and the goal of the project; there is only the drive as anti-teleological principle of desire (7). Guattari later defined schizoanalysis . As Guattari writes of schizoanalysis, transversal thinking 'does not choose one modelisation to the exclusion of another'; rather, transversality is about creating lines of flight among various models, 'making them…operative within modified assemblages, more open, . McKenzie Wark makes While the term “schizoanalysis” is derived from “schizophrenia” (as discussed by Deleuze and Guattari), it does not promote mental illness; rather, “schizo” is used as a way of offering up the possibility of multiple voices, and alternative world-views, amongst other factors. In "The Anti-Oedipus", Deleuze and Guattari introduce the concept of Desiring Machines, a concept more suited to science (biology in particular) and medicine (psychiatry in particular) as a description of the unconscious functions of the that only knows energy parameters and energy functions, and the creation of a therapeutic or analytic methodology, schizoanalysis, overtly engaged with anti-psychiatry in a combat against Psychoanalysis and medical psychiatry. The western The concluding piece of Anti-Oedipus is an introduction to Schizoanalysis. In this case, it will help to read The Three Ecologies in parallel with Guattari's first collaboration with Deleuze, Anti-Oedipus, specifically the early passages in which they introduce 'the residuum subject'. I remember believing that Deleuze was rigorous but that Guattari was frivolous; I read The Fold but scorned Anti-Oedipus. On the Purloined Letter'.[4] Interestingly, in his letter which later became a journal article, he discusses not Lacan's famous reading of the Edgar Allen Poe short story, but rather the published seminar session's introduction, a text which describes variations on the children's game of even and odds. Anti-Oedipus has four major parts the first part is an account of Deleuze and Guattari's materialist psychiatry; the second is a critique of Freud's Oedipus complex, the third is a rewriting Marx's philosophy of history using the new language of materialist psychiatry and the fourth section is about Deleuze and Guattari's new analytic endeavor, Schizoanalysis. A week later, Anthony formerly opened his book-event on The Hermetic Deleuze [here], and formerly shared the pdf of Joshua's introduction The Secrets of Immanence [here], which I downloaded and printed in order to read it. So say Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their introduction to Anti-Oedipus (1972), the first volume of their Capitalism and Schizophrenia series. Introduction: The Process of Desiring-production. It's filed under abstract machine, Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze, desire, desiring machines, family, guattari, lacan, libido, machinic unconscious, molecularity, Schizoanalysis, subject-group, transversality. That was Now, it's Guattari and his free wheeling schizoanalysis that turns me on.