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Groundbreaking essays that introduce Guattari’s theories of «schizo-analysis,» in an expanded edition.Chaosophy is an introduction to Felix 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 such provocative pieces as «Everybody Wants to Be a Fascist,» a group of texts on Guattari’s collaborative work with Gilles Deleuze (including the appendix to Anti-Oedipus, not available in the English edition), and «How Martians Make Love,» a roundtable discussion with Guattari, Lotringer, Catherine Clement, and Serge Leclaire from 1972 (still unpublished in French). This new, expanded edition features a new introduction by Francois Dosse (author of a new biography of Guattari and Gilles Deleuze) and a range of additional essays, including «Franco Basaglia: Guerrilla Psychiatrist,» «The Transference,» «Semiological Subjection, Semiotic Enslavement,» «The Place of the Signifier in the Institution,» and «Three Billion Perverts on the Stand.»
