Anti-Oedipus
Capitalism and Schizophrenia
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Anti-Oedipus
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Jon Orsini
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About this listen
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.
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" Renders palpable the metaphor of the unconscious as a worker, and does it in a brilliant, appropriately nutty way."
-The New Republic
-The New Republic
I see how Nick Land ended up taking these kernel in the book in a reactionary direction (& being afraid of Xenodemons).
There are a handful of interesting thought experiments but the entire thing is mainly designed to troll Freud, psychoanalysis & Lacan (which I can sort of get behind).
Theres one or two nice little paragraphs: like a line about wanting to open the windows of the stuffy psychoanalyst office and let the outside world in, but most of it is purposely obtuse & reads like an acid trip.
It fully admits that it does not construct any concrete alternative or political program. I will give it credit for that honesty at least.
Trolling of Freud with a spiral into obscuritan metaphysics
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