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

Guattari later defined schizoanalysis . The book, in large part, is written against A radical critique of capital cannot therefore be accomplished by psychoanalysis, but requires a schizoanalysis “to overturn the theater of representation into the order of desiring-production” (Deleuze 1983b, 271). €Introduction to schizoanalysis”: Deleuze and Guattari outline a practical ethics of schizoanalysis, promulgating the use-value of a malevolently destructive desire that purifies as does a curettage. 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. The dissolution of the subject and its implications for society is the theme of Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, which Deleuze published with Félix Guattari in 1972 (English 1983). It is well known that in the Anti-Oedipus Guattari and Deleuze invented 'schizoanalysis' as a critique of psychoanalysis (Deleuze and Guattari, 1983). It is my conviction that the Rather, it was, after demonstrating the dynamics of libidinal investment, to introduce a method of analyzing and intervening in such investments. Deleuze and Guattari: Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. 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. A remark must be made here about the critique of familialism, Oedipus, and (really existing) psychoanalysis that makes up the majority of Anti-Oedipus. Deleuze and Guattari do not see the family structure as a bad thing or evil in itself, despite what their polemical vitriol might indicate.