Félix Guattari: Molecular Revolution: Psychiatry and Politics (1984)

A collection of essays on social psychiatry includes discussions of the capitalist system, class struggle, and institutional psychotherapy. Selected from Psychanalyse et transversalité (1972) and La révolution moléculaire (1977).

Publisher Penguin, 1984
A Peregrine Book
ISBN 0140551603, 978-0140551600
308 pages

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Félix Guattari: Chaosophy: Texts and Interviews 1972–1977, new ed. (2008)

“Chaosophy is an introduction to Félix 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. Guattari’s post-Marxist vision of capitalism provides a new definition not only of mental illness, but also of the micropolitical means for its subversion.

Chaosophy includes Guattari’s writings and interviews on the cinema (such as ‘Cinema Fou’ and ‘The Poor Man’s Couch’), a group of texts on his collaborative work with Gilles Deleuze (including the appendix to the second edition of Anti-Oedipus, not available in the English edition), and his texts on homosexuality (including his “Letter to the Tribunal” addressing the French government’s censorship of the special gay issue of Recherches he edited, which earned him a fine for publishing “a detailed exposition of depravity and sexual deviations… the libidinous exhibition of a minority of perverts”). This expanded edition features a new introduction by François Dosse (author of a new biography of Guattari and Gilles Deleuze), along with a range of added essays—including ‘The Plane of Consistency,’ ‘Machinic Propositions,’ ‘Gangs in New York,’ and ‘Three Billion Perverts on the Stand’—nearly doubling the contents of the original edition.”

Edited by Sylvère Lotringer
Introduction by François Dosse
Publisher Semiotext(e), 2008
Foreign Agents series
ISBN 1584350601, 9781584350606
300 pages

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Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari: Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972–) [FR, ES, DE, IT, GR, EN, RU, PT]

“When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was 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-Oedipus still stands as a controversial contribution to a much-needed dialogue on the nature of free thinking.”

Publisher Les Editions de Minuit, 1972

English edition
Translated by Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane
Preface by Michel Foucault
Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 1983
400 pages

Key terms: schizoanalysis, desiring-production, deterritorialization, Anti-Oedipus, psychoanalysis, Oedipus complex, anti-production, surplus-value, nuclear family, Deleuze and Guattari, Lacan, Marxism, incest, exclusive disjunction, death instinct, Nietzsche, Spinoza, permanent revolution, paralogism, capitalist

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L’Anti-Oedipe: Capitalisme et schizophrénie (French, added on 2012-10-18)
El Anti Edipo: Capitalismo y esquizofrenia (Spanish, trans. Francisco Monge, 1973/1985, added on 2013-1-1)
Anti-Ödipus: Kapitalismus und Schizophrenie I (German, trans. Bernd Schwips, 1974/1977, no OCR, added on 2013-1-2)
L’anti-Edipo: Capitalismo e schizofrenia (Italian, trans. Alessandro Fontana, 1975, added on 2013-1-1)
Kapitalismós kai schizofréneia: o anti-Oidípous (Greek, trans. Καίτη Χατζηδήμου and Ιουλιέττα Ράλλη, 1981, 24 MB, added on 2016-8-3)
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (English, trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane, 1983, updated on 2012-10-18)
Анти-Эдип: Капитализм и шизофрения (Russian, trans. Д.Кралечкина, 2008, DJVU, no OCR, added on 2013-1-2)
O anti-Édipo: capitalismo e esquizofrenia (Portuguese, trans. Luiz B. L. Orlandi, 2010, added on 2013-1-1)

See also their A Thousand Plateaus.