Guattari's Diagrammatic Thought Writing Between Lacan and Deleuze

by Watson, Janell

• ISBN13: 9781847064677
• ISBN10: 1847064671
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-08
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

A unique examination of the writing of Felix Guattari, one of France's most important intellectuals of the twentieth century.

Author Biography

Janell Watson is Associate Professor of French at Virginia Tech university, USA. Her previous publications include Literature and Material Culture from Balzoc to Proust (CUP, 1999)

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
About translations	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction: schizoanalysis as metamodeling	p. 1
Lacan's couch, Guattari's institution: accessing the real	p. 15
Clinical contexts	p. 17
Sartre meets Freud in the pscyh ward	p. 22
Purloined letters to Lacan	p. 31
The place of the real	p. 45
The cosmic psyche: capitalism's triangular traps	p. 55
ôIt's better to biologizeö	p. 58
Genesis	p. 69
Behavior as assemblage	p. 77
Resonating black holes	p. 81
An energetics of existence: creative quadrants	p. 97
Families and other systems	p. 103
Return to Freud	p. 111
One or several planes?	p. 122
History as machinic phylum: sociopolitical schemas	p. 135
Lacan's revolutionary moment	p. 138
Militant iconoclasm	p. 149
Graphing the revolution	p. 158
In search of singularity	p. 166
From the October cut to molecular May	p. 177
Afterword: from cartography to ecology	p. 182
Notes	p. 186
Bibliography	p. 199
Index	p. 207
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