Chaos Interpenetration

Chaosmose

★The last book published by Guattari during his lifetime deeply expounds on Guattari's original thoughts throughout his life...
【Content Introduction】
Throughout his life, Guattari roamed across a wide range of fields, including psychoanalysis, philosophy, politics, aesthetics, and literature. He was not a psychoanalyst in the sense of Freud or Lacan. He no longer considered stereotypical issues like transference and the Oedipus complex, and his diagnosis was no longer of individual mental patients, but rather the "illnesses" of modern society. While structuralists were labeling subjectivity a "sin," Guattari went the other way, rethinking the question of subjectivity from the perspective of production and rethinking the "liberation practice" of the Enlightenment.
What is the production of subjectivity? What are war machines, desiring machines, and abstract machines? How should we understand schizoanalysis? How does the "interpenetration of chaos" that is the source of the aesthetic paradigm operate? In this book, Guattari addresses these questions one by one. With his unique approach, he criticizes structuralism, which focuses on the hegemony of the signifier, and rejects psychoanalysis, which is guided by the scientific paradigm. He opposes structure with the machine and transcends empathy with the theory of transversality. He guides us toward an aesthetic paradigm based on the production of subjectivity and opens up schizoanalysis guided by the aesthetic paradigm. These original ideas of Guattari occupy a central position in his collaboration with Deleuze, but they have been overshadowed by Deleuze's aura and have not yet unleashed their full intellectual power. Through the clear exposition and further development in this book, we will appreciate the theoretical style that is different from "Deleuze and Guattari" and experience the extraordinary intensity of Guattari's own thought.
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Felix was talking to me about what he had already called the Desiring Machine: the whole theoretical and practical conception of a machine unconscious, a schizophrenic unconscious. I felt he was ahead of me.
Many of the central concepts in Deleuze's Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus were proposed by Guattari. It was under Guattari's advocacy that they began to critique psychoanalysis and develop the opposing theory of "schizoanalysis." Guattari's position beyond the tradition of academic philosophy enabled him, after collaborating with Deleuze, to incorporate a direct focus on political, social, and historical issues into Deleuze's work. Furthermore, Guattari's many years of practical experience provided the necessary premise for his and Deleuze's continuous theoretical innovation in their collaboration.
— Renaud Borg, author of Deleuze on Literature…
【Editor's Recommendation】
◆ This book is Guattari's last work. It is a highly summarized and concluded version of his thoughts. It is also the first complete Chinese translation of Guattari's solo work. Readers may be able to discover Guattari beyond the aura of Deleuze.
Many of the central concepts in Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus were proposed by Guattari. In this book, Guattari further elaborates on the original ideas involved in his collaboration with Deleuze, which is very helpful for understanding Guattari and Deleuze's collaboration.
Guattari trained with Lacan for seven years, beginning with the inception of Lacan's seminars. He was deeply aware of the crisis of psychoanalysis and ultimately pioneered schizoanalysis. In this book, Guattari offers in-depth reflections on Freud and Lacan on many core issues of psychoanalysis, offering innovative insights.
◆ Guattari has been a "nomad" throughout his life in many fields such as psychoanalysis, philosophy, politics, aesthetics, and literature. In this book, Guattari also takes the re-creation and re-alienation of subjectivity as the core, and critically reflects on Lacan's psychoanalysis, structuralism, information theory, postmodernism, as well as the thoughts of Heidegger, Bakhtin, Barthes and others.
◆ The appendix features a letter in which Deleuze explains his collaboration with Guattari, as well as an article in his memory of Guattari.

2020-02-01

南京大学出版社

148

9787305139864