An early work that lays the foundation for establishing a
"polemical" dimension to psychoanalysis. We certainly have the
unconscious that we deserve, an unconscious for specialists,
ready-made for an institutionalized discourse. I would rather see
it as something that wraps itself around us in everyday objects,
something that is involved with day-to-day problems, with the world
outside. It would be the possible itself, open to the socius, to
the cosmos...-from The Machinic Unconscious: Essays in
Schizoanalysis In his seminal solo-authored work The Machinic
Unconscious (originally published in French in 1979), Felix
Guattari lays the groundwork for a general pragmatics capable of
resisting the semiotic enslavement of subjectivity. Concluding that
psychoanalytic theory had become part and parcel of a repressive,
capitalist social order, Guattari here outlines a schizoanalytic
theory to undo its capitalist structure and set the discipline back
on its feet. Combining theoretical research from fields as diverse
as cybernetics, semiotics, ethnology, and ethology, Guattari
reintroduces into psychoanalysis a "polemical" dimension, at once
transhuman, transsexual, and transcosmic, that brings out the
social and political-the "machinic"-potential of the unconscious.
To illustrate his theory, Guattari turns to literature and analyzes
the various modes of subjectivization and semiotization at work in
Proust's In Search of Lost Time, examining the novel as if he were
undertaking a scientific exploration in the style of Freud or
Newton. Casting Proust's figures as abstract
("hyper-deterritorialized") mental objects, Guattari maps the
separation between literature and science, elaborating along the
way such major Deleuze-Guattarian concepts as "faciality" and
"refrain," which would be unpacked in their subsequent A Thousand
Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Never before available in
English, The Machinic Unconscious has for too long been the missing
chapter from Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus project: the most
important political extension of May 1968 and one of the most
important philosophical contributions of the twentieth century.
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