Schizoanalysis

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In the "Introduction to schizoanalysis" found in Anti-Oedipus Deleuze and Guattari states that schizoanalysis has three tasks:

  1. to deconstruct modern societys and psychoanalysis' model of the unconscious - that is "to overturn the theater of representation",
  2. to reveal the nature, formations and functionings of the subjects desiring machines, and then
  3. to liberate desiring production in all directions.

Schizoanalysis critizises the psychoanalyst understanding of several key concepts:

  • Desire, as a curable lack of something essential. To Deleuze and Guattari desire is a real productive force, much like the nietzschian Will to Power. It involves incorporating what is outside oneself, rather than being the manifestation of an imagined lack within. The schizoanalyst seeks to free desire of interpretation, to analyze it "beneath ideology".
  • Subject, as being constructed by psychoanalysis rather than the object to be analyzed by it - a subjectivation, as Michel Foucault would say. Schizoanalysis aims to free the subject of its "subjectivity", that is: rid it of any pre-fixed organization and turn it into a Body without Organs.
  • "Familialism", or the constant definition of psychological pathology in terms of relations to a basic fixed family structure - and the triangle drama of the Oedipus complex.
  • Sexuality ...
  • The authoritarian relationship between analyst and patient ...
  • The relationship between the social and desire (desiring production) ...
  • etc

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