Abstract
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s approach to Freud’s propagation of the ancient myth of Oedipus strikes at its heart, which is, the triangle of daddy-mommy-me, the dogma of the nuclear family, and the intervention and manipulation of the psychoanalytic priest, the psychoanalyst him or herself. Deleuze and Guattari argue that having introduced production into desire, psychiatry “cannot avoid posing in eschatological terms the problem of the ultimate relationship between the analytic machine, the revolutionary machine, and desiring machines.”
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Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, tr. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. Originally published in French as L’anti-Oedipe, Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1972.
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Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, tr. Paul Patton, New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Originally published in French as Différence et Répétition, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1968.
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Deleuze, Logic of Sense, tr. Mark Lester with Charles Stivale, ed. Constantin V. Boundas, New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Originally published as Logique du sens, Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1969.
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Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, 70, 71. Further page reference in the text.
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Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 5.
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Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 2. Emphasis added. Further page references in the text.
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Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, 75, 76.
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Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 6. Deleuze and Guattari cite Henri Michaux.
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Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, 74–75. Further page references in the text.
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Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, 83. This structure is expressed most clearly by Henri Bergson’s memory cone.
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Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 8. Further page reference in the text.
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Sigmund Freud, The Schreber Case, tr. Andrew Webber (New York: Penguin Modern Classics, 2003), 8.
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Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 10, 11.
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Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 11. Schreber comes to believe that it is God who initiates or at least has knowledge of the assault on Schreber’s body. Freud, The Schreber Case, 11.
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Freud, The Schreber Case, 12–13.
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Deleuze Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 13.
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Bergson, Matter and Memory, tr. N. M. Paul and W. S. Palmer (New York: Zone Books, 1988), 95
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Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 11, 12. Further page reference in the text.
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Freud, The Schreber Case, 14, 15.
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Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 13, 14. Additional page reference in the text.
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Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, 86. Further page references in the text.
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Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 13.
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David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968), 1. Further page references in the text.
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Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 19.
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Hume, A Treatise, 416.
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Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 17. Freud, The Schreber Case, 21.
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Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 18–19.
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Freud, The Schreber Case, 21.
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Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 22, 23. Further page references in the text.
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“Schizophrenia’s Strongest Genetic Risk Deconstructed,” National Institutes of Mental Health Press Release, January 27, 2016; http://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2016/schizophrenias-strongest-known-genetic-risk-deconstructed.shtml (access March 2021).
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My essay, “Is Capitalism Determined? Deleuze and Guattari Between Capitalism and Calculus,” appears in the British Journal of Phenomenology 45, 2 (2014): 91–106. It is an analysis of the determinate conditions under which capitalism developed and organizes desiring-production.
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Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 33. Further page references in the text.
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Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 35. Emphasis added.
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Olkowski, D. (2022). Deleuze-Guattari and the End of Oedipus. In: Weissberg, L. (eds) Psychoanalysis, Fatherhood, and the Modern Family. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82124-1_5
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