Schizoanalysis and Ecosophy: Reading Deleuze and Guattari

by Constantin V. Boundas (Editor)

This volume presents the concepts of schizoanalysis and ecosophy as Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze understood them, in interviews and analyses by their contemporaries and followers.

This accessible yet authoritative introduction is written by distinguished specialists, combining testimonies from some of Guattari's colleagues at the La Borde psychiatric clinic where he practiced, with expository essays on his main ideas, schizoanalysis and ecosophy, as well as his relations with Lacan. The last section of the book deals with the subsequent creative application of those ideas by his philosophical and psychoanalytic followers situated within the contemporary moment. This collection also provides the crucial historical context of France at the time Guattari was developing his concepts, including the role of the Maoists and the significance of the political situation in Algeria.

280 pages, Hardcover

Published December 14, 2017

Reviews

[Charles · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book, although pitched to beginners in theory (in principle at least) as well as to more advanced (in theory) readers, has many, challenges, but may appeal to Guattari oriented readers as well as all of the Gilles Deleuze crowd! For anyone interested in Schizoanalysis as a practice as well as having a history, the Querrien interview and the chapters that follow are of particular interest. Also, see Hanjo Berressem's essay on Guattari's 'Schizoanalytic Cartographies'.